TY - BOOK AU - Pascal,Blaise AU - M'Crie,Thomas TI - The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal AV - BX PY - 2024/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Jansenists -- France -- Early works to 1800 KW - Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey) -- Early works to 1800 KW - Jesuits -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales; Release date is 2024-07-01; Charlene Taylor, Daniel Lowe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Originally published; United States: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1856 N2 - "The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal" by Blaise Pascal is a series of eighteen polemical letters written between 1656-1657. Written under a pseudonym during a fierce theological controversy, these letters defend Pascal's friend against heresy charges while launching a witty, satirical attack on Jesuit casuistry and moral reasoning. Combining intellectual fervor with worldly polish, Pascal's humorous mockery made these letters both a literary sensation and a theological bombshell that defied even papal authority, ultimately influencing how the Church approached moral questions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://archive.org/details/provincialletter00pasciala/page/n5/mode/2up UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73959 ER -