Description
He lived for just 39 years, yet Blaise Pascal was one of the most remarkable and creative figures of the seventeenth century.
He is known for his famous argument 'the wager', but there's so much more to him than that (and most people misunderstand the argument anyway). Pascal can lay claim not only to have built an early version of the modern computer, done ground-breaking work in mathematics and geometry and virtually invented probability theory, but also to have produced one of the most haunting and effective works of Christian apologetics ever written. He is a major intellectual figure at the beginning of the modern age who blends together in his own person and thinking issues that are critical to our age. Blaise Pascal is therefore a crucial figure: not just in the history of European thought, but in how he can shed light on many contemporary debates.
About the Author
Graham Tomlin is a British theologian, author and Church of England bishop. Since 2022 he has led the Centre for Cultural Witness at Lambeth Palace, which seeks to strengthed the church's engagement with contemporary issues. He was Bishop of Kensington at the time of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017 and was dean then principal of St Mellitus Theological College. Tomlin is the author of many books, including The Widening Circle (2014), Looking Through The Cross - The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2014, and Why Being Yourself is a Bad Idea (2020).
Book Information
ISBN 9781399807647
Author Graham Tomlin
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
