'Blaise Pascal' by Graham Tomlin

Event details

Date: Wednesday 19 March 2025

Time: 6:00-7:30

Venue: Wycliffe Hall, 52-54 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PW

The event includes:

• A Welcome from Revd Dr Michael Lloyd, Principal of Wycliffe Hall
• An Introduction then readings by Graham Tomlin from the book.
• Opportunity for questions to Graham from the audience
• Refreshments
• Book signing and sales

Getting here: Wycliffe Hall is on major bus routes. Limited parking may be available on site (please contact us by email if you have any special access requirements) and pay-and-display on-street parking is available close by in Norham Gardens. 

All are welcome: the event is open to the public and free to attend. 

To register to attend: please use this link to reserve your place.

About Graham Tomlin

GRAHAM TOMLIN is Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness, based in Lambeth Palace, and President of St Mellitus College. He was formerly Bishop of Kensington in London. He taught theology in Oxford University and London for many years and is a former Vice Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and is a regular speaker both nationally and internationally.

About Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World

BLAISE PASCAL lived for just 39 years, yet was one of the most remarkable and creative figures of the seventeenth century. He is known for his famous argument 'the wager', but there's so much more to him than that.

Pascal can lay claim not only to have built an early version of the modern computer, done ground-breaking work in mathematics and geometry and virtually invented probability theory, but also to have produced one of the most haunting and effective works of Christian apologetics ever written.

He is a major intellectual figure at the beginning of the modern age who blends together in his own person and thinking issues that are critical to our age.

Blaise Pascal is therefore a crucial figure: not just in the history of European thought, but in how he can shed light on many contemporary debates.

Endorsements for the book:

"Readable and expert - a brilliant guide to the life and thought of 17th century Europe's supreme polymath."
TOM HOLLAND

"A richly detailed account of Pascal's life and times, which displays an energetic sympathy for Pascal's startling combination of intellectual precocity and humble faith."
RORY STEWART

"A beautiful, accessible account of one of the era's most remarkable lives."
KATHERINE RUNDELL