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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1693 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

1 work

published 1670

French

Pensées

Pensées

Blaise Pascal · 1623–1662

Notes for an unfinished defence of Christianity, found after the mathematician's early death: the wretchedness and greatness of humanity, the hiddenness of God, the wager, and the heart's reasons that reason does not know.

Catholic (Jansenist) · FragmentsIsaiahRomans