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Date(s) - September 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Blaise Pascal was a physicist, a mathematician, an inventor, entrepreneur, philosopher theologian, and polemicist. His famous unfinished apology for the Christian faith – the Pensées – speaks powerfully to the modern world. Positioned between the rationalism of Descartes and the scepticism of Montaigne, he offers a form of Christian faith that speaks to the uncertainties and mysteries of human existence, and in particular, the consciousness of modern humanity within the vastness of the universe. This lecture will explore Pascal’s wisdom for contemporary sensibilities caught between the scientific confidence of modernity and the pessimistic scepticism of late modernity.
Biography: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Graham Tomlin is Editor-in-Chief of SeenandUnseen.com, President of St Mellitus College and Chair of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith, and Order. He was Bishop of Kensington from 2015-22 and Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness from 2022-25. He was the founding Dean of St Mellitus College, and before that, Vice Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, where he taught Historical Theology within the Theology Faculty of Oxford University. He also served as Chaplain of Jesus College Oxford. He is the author and editor of around 20 books, most recently, Blaise Pascal: The Man who Made the Modern World (Hodder, 2025).
https://ubcgcu.org/2026/06/14/new-2026-27-ubc-gfcf-lecture-series/