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1. Pascal's Wager: The Man Who Played Dice with God
by James A. Connor
A child prodigy, Pascal made essential additions to Descartes' work at the age of 16. By the age of 19, he had invented the world's first mechanical ... More
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2. God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
by Leszek Kolakowski
How do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's ... More
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3. A Rule for Children and Other Writings
by Jacqueline Pascal, John J Conley, S.J. (Translator)
Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer ... More
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4. Suffering Saints: Jansenists and Convulsionnaires in France, 1640-1799
by Brian Eugene Strayer
This comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France is the only work currently available in English that places the Jansenist movement ... More
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7. The provincial letters
by Blaise Pascal
These Letters, written in defense of his Jansenist friends, exposes and ridicules the doctrines of the Jesuits. Pascal does a wonderful job of being ... More
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8. Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution
by William Doyle
This book explains why Jansenism was so important, recreates the religious and intellectual world which fostered it, and examines the critical issues ... More
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9. Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns
by Daniella Kostroun
Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican ... More
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10. Strangers & Sojourners at Port Royal: Being an Account of the Connections Between the British Isles and the Jansenists of France and Holland
by Ruth Clark
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12. Les Provinciales
by Blaise Pascal
List of all editionsExtrait: Cependant vous serez bien surpris quand vous apprendrez, par ce r cit, quoi se termine un si grand clat; et c'est ce que je vous dirai en ... More
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13. Pascal's Lettres Provinciales: A Study in Polemic
by Richard Parish
List of all editionsThis is the first comprehensive English-language study of the controversial Lettres Provinciales, Pascal's major polemical work against the Society ... More
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15. A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland
by J M Neale
List of all editionsThe Old Catholic churches have branches--both official and unofficial--all over the world. The classic history of Old Catholic beginnings--the first ... More
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16. Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosphy of Port-Royal
by John J Conley, S.J.
List of all editionsIn seventeenth-century France, southwest of Paris, the Port-Royal convent became the center of the Jansenist movement and of its adherents' ... More







