Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth century French philosopher and scientist is perhaps best known for his ‘wager’, an argument about the existence of God. But there’s much more to Pascal and his brilliance.
- (0:55) Who was Blaise Pascal?
- (2:25) Pascal’s Defense of the Christian religion;
- (4:10) Pascal’s experience of God;
- (7:40) Asceticism;
- (8:40) Science and faith;
- (11:00) Pascal’s use of science and its limits;
- (13:00) Pascal and the miraculous;
- (14:45) Pascal and biblical prophecy;
- (16:55) Pascal and the gospels;
- (19:00) Pascal and non-Christian religion;
- (20:40) Pascal a Christian genius for the ages?
- (21:35) The wager._
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.douglasgroothuis.com/about
/www.christianbook.com/beyond-wager-christian-brilliance-blaise-pascal/9781514001783/pd/001780
www.ivpress.com
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