Why Read Pascal? David Lazear with the thematic development providing

with the thematic development providing a basis for exploring the relationship between myth and history in biblical faith

a meditation on the colour blue

and surprised

At the heart of Jon’s account of his misspent youth in Thailand and his subsequent life inside Klong Prem prison is a Thai-style acceptance of the consequences of his own karma and a desire to expose the fallacy that Westerners are mistreated in Thai prisons

I found this book alarmingly enlightening

Why Read Pascal? David Lazear with the thematic development providingBlaise Pascal (1623 1662) is known in the English speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensees, a collection of philosophical and theological fragments of unusual emotional and intellectual intensity collected and published after his death. He thought and wrote, however, about much more than this: mathematics; physics; grace,