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Journal Article
Pascal’s Wafer: The Concept of Piety in Blaise Pascal’s Theological Anthropology
2025
Overview
The concept of piety occupies a central, if hidden or obscure place in Blaise Pascal’s theological anthropology. As a product of the Fall, the human self is “hateful” and perpetually incapable of fulfilling any sense of duty or purity before God. As the means by which the human self is “annihilated,” piety entails endurance and an embrace of uncertainty. At the same time, however, piety does not exclusively involve self-annihilating acts. There are also different states of piety – what Pascal refers to as the “beginning,” “progress” and “consummation” of piety – that are increasingly “filled” and directed toward a final, heavenly state. There is thus a way in which pious acts and states work in tandem and toward the same end. As I seek to show, piety, for Pascal, is fundamentally a childlike phenomenon – an act and state simultaneously whereby a person, rather than presenting him- or herself before God, is brought into God’s presence.
Publisher
De Gruyter,Walter de Gruyter GmbH
