Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Evaluative Fall: Disordered Love and the Aversion to Truth
2: The Reign of Duplicity: Pascal s Political Theology
3: The Imaginary Self in a World of Illusion: Pascal on the Fallen Human Subject
4: Sin and Self-Deception in Pascal s Moral Theology
5: On Lying to Oneself: Analytic Philosophy on Self-Deception
6: A Pascalian Model of Sin as Self-Deception: Morally Culpable Self-Persuasion
7: The Way Back: On Loving the Truth

About the Author

William Wood is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Oriel College, Oxford.

Reviews

On the whole, Wood's study on sin and self-deception starting from Pascal's Pensées is very convincing ... This [is an] elegantly presented, imaginative and pithy work.
*Jochen Schmidt, Theologische Literaturzeitung*

There is much of value in this and the level of discussion is generally excellent.
*John Henry, The Expository Times*