ABSTRACT
One of the writers discussed by Nicholas Boyle in Sacred and Secular Scriptures, his study of the connection between literature and theology, is Blaise Pascal. Pascal was a mathematician, a physicist and an inventor, whose lasting contribution to science we recall every time we use the term 'pascal' to denote a unit of pressure. This man of reason spent the last eight years of his life on a concentrated engagement with questions of faith, which bore fruit in the series of fragments known as the Pensees, published posthumously in 1669. In this work, Pascal tackles the difference between faith and reason head on and challenges his readers to take faith seriously and to think about how it operates in the human spirit. Greiffenberg, like Pascal, had a vision, what she called her 'Deoglori Licht', and it played a key part in her religious development and affected her all her life.
