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Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference : Pascal's Defense of the Christian Proposition / Pierre Manent, Paul Seaton, and Daniel J. Mahoney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manent, Pierre, author.
- Seaton, Paul, author.
- Mahoney, Daniel J., author.
- Series:
- Catholic ideas for a secular world.
- Catholic Ideas for a Secular World Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
- Pascal, Blaise.
- Atheism.
- Philosophy and religion.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent's penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century polymath and apologist for the Christian faith, Blaise Pascal. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was the first Christian apologist to address modern human beings on their own terms and present a defense of the Christian religion that still resonates today. A major publishing and intellectual event in France when it first appeared in 2022, Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is Pierre Manent's investigation of Pascal's exploration of Christianity in the wake of a sharp atheistic turn at the dawn of the modern state and modern science. Comprehensive in scope and profound in treatment, this engagement with all of Pascal's writings, including his famous Pensées , appeals to the reader's head and heart. Manent emphasizes the joy that comes from engaging the truth of faith, and he argues that we are diminished by forgetting the unique and distinctive contributions of Christianity. More than brilliant exegesis, Manent enlists Pascal in a much greater endeavor: to make what he calls "the Christian proposition" concerning God and man intelligible to Europeans who have made it their business to ignore the religion that founded Europe and the larger Western world.
- Contents:
- Confronting atheism
- How God comes to man
- To prove God?
- The human phenomenon
- Force and justice in human order
- The illusions of the self
- Greatness and misery
- Liberator and mediator
- The style of the Gospel
- Certainty and salvation
- Conclusion: fear and joy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780268209421
- 0268209421
- 9780268209438
- 026820943X
- OCLC:
- 1513420770
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