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 b...