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Portrait of Pascal, Humble Genius
BY Louise Perrotta
February 08-14, 1998 Issue |
Posted 2/8/98 at 11:00 AM
Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart by Marvin O'Connell
(Eerdmans, 1997, 210 pp., $16)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a genius with the precociousness of a Mozart and the breadth of interest of a Da Vinci. He lived in a time and society vastly different from our own, yet his profound reflections on universal issues remain vital and compelling. Thinkers like T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, Peter Kreeft, and Bells of Nagasaki author Takashi Nagai are in his debt. Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop...
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