Wagering on an Ironic God

"Philosophers startle ordinary people. Christians astonish the philosophers." --Pascal, Pensées   In Wagering on an Ironic God Thomas S. Hibbs both startles and astonishes. He does so by offering a new interpretation of Pascal’s Pensées and by showing the importance of Pascal in and for a philosophy of religion.   Hibbs resists the temptation to focus exclusively on Pascal’s famous "wager" or to be beguiled by the fragmentary and presumably incomplete nature of Pensées . Instead he dis