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Article: God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism.
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- December 25, 1995
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God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism, by Leszek Kolakowski (Chicago, 238 pp., $22.50)
Fr. Dulles is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University and author, most recently, of The Assurance of Things Hoped For: A Theology of Christian Faith (Oxford).
THIS book falls into two parts, the first dealing with seventeenth-century Jansenism, the second with Blaise Pascal. The two parts are connected inasmuch as Pascal was a Jansenist, but Kolakowski's treatment of Pascal deals mainly with the Pensees, a work that he finds free of Jansenist theology except in a few details. He ...