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Jansenism: a Church Divided
Michelangelo‘s painting of the sin of Adam and Eve from the Sistine Chapel ceiling (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Pascal studying the cycloid, by Augustin Pajou, 1785, Louvre (Photo credit: Wikipedia)...
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Pascal’s “Provincial Letters”
Prefatory miniature from a moralised Bible of “God as architect of the world”, folio I verso, Paris ca. 1220–1230. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum 1′ 1½” × 8¼”. Osterreichische...
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Discussing Religions
Constantius appoints Constantine as his successor by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Religions If one is a Christian, one tends to write: “our” religion, or “our” Saviour, as Jesus is...
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Jesuits & Jansenists
Blaise Pascal In 1656-1657, Blaise Pascal (Louis de Montalte) wrote his eighteen Provincial Letters in defense of the Jansenists of the abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, located near Paris, and...
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Isis: a Nightmare
An Arab and his Dogs by Jean-Léon Gérôme (Photo credit: WikiArt.org) My lost post resurfaced. I added missing links to the published post, but did not change its contents. However, one of my links led...
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