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"... (Pascal's) was a Christianity founded in a profound experience of God, an intense devotional life and a form of faith that off ered a radical alternative to the comfortable assimilation to culture that the Church of his day often seemed to promote."
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Tomlin goes on to say that Pascal was able to perfectly merge science and Christianity, while keeping them seperate, and that this protected the church from figures like Darwin. Au contraire. It was precisely such a seperation, a rejection of what William Lane Craig terms "reasonable Christianity" which was, and is, the last holdout against the skepticism of Descartes. The emphasis on emotion, on experience, on the unexplainable is certainly one of the factors which has been highly influential, so Tomlin is certainly write that Pascal can be seen as a post-modern figure, the question is: do we want to be postmodern ourselves?
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