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The Contemporary Relevance of Pascal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

John McDade SJ
John McDade SJ*
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Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HQ
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Blaise PascalJansenismAugustinian theologyOriginal Sin
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New Blackfriars , Volume 91 , Issue 1032: Special Issue: Catholic Theological Association 2009 Conference Papers: The Legacy of Paul , March 2010 , pp. 185 - 196
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Copyright © The author 2010. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council.

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References

1 References to the Pensées are to two editions with different orderings of the text. L refers to the Lafuma edition translated by Krailsheimer in Penguin (1995); S refers to the Sellier edition badly and incompletely translated by H. Levi in Oxford World Classics (OUP, 1995).

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4 Op. cit., p. 331.

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6 Op. cit., pp. 193–4.

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8 Cf., Gouhier, op. cit., p. 188ff.

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