Pascal's God-Shaped Vacuum: A Guided Tour of The Pensees by Peter Gilbert

Author:Peter Gilbert [Gilbert, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

Wretchedness induces despair. Pride induces presumption. The Incarnation shows man the greatness of his wretchedness through the greatness of the remedy required.

We Can Only Know Ourselves Through Jesus Christ. What is more, Pascal suggests, we can only understand ourselves through Jesus Christ:

Not only do we only know God through Jesus Christ, but we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ; we only know life and death through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we cannot know the meaning of our life or our death, of God or of ourselves… [Pensée 417]

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