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Lawrence S. Cunningham January 8, 2007 - 11:14am

Pascal’s Wager

The Man Who Played Dice with God

James A. Connor

HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 240 pp.
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Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was a brilliant figure in Western thought and science, who combined a ferocious, practical mind with a deep thirst to wrestle with the most fundamental philosophical issues. He seems to...

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Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Things Seen and Unseen: A Catholic Theologian's Notebook (Ave Maria Press).

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