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When Pascal, the great French philosopher and mathematician, died, a slip of paper was found sewn into his clothing. It was his Memorial of what he called his ‘second conversion’, a profound religious experience that occurred on 23 November 1654. Pascal’s oft-quoted words are:
From about 10:30 at night until about 12:30. FIRE. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and of the learned. Certitude, certitude, feeling, joy, peace. God of Jesus Christ … Let me never be separated from him [1].
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Cited in ‘Pascal, Blaise’, by Richard Popkin in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ed. Paul Edwards (New York: Macmillan, 1967) vol. VI, p. 52.
Pierre Thevenaz, ‘God of the Philosophers and God of the Christians’, Studies in Religion, vol. 5, no. 4 (1975/1976) p. 338.
J.N. Findlay, ‘Can God’s Existence Be Disproved?’, New Essays in Philosophical Theology (New York: Macmillan Company, 1955) pp. 51–3.
Quoted in Jacques Maritan, St Thomas Aquinas (New York: Meridian Books, 1958) p. 54.
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Davis, S.T. (1983). Conclusion. In: Logic and the Nature of God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06352-9_11
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