Join the next Seen & Unseen live event at Wycliffe Hall in the University of Oxford to celebrate the launch of Graham Tomlin's latest book, Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made The Modern World. 

The French mathematician and physicist lived for just 39 years, yet Blaise Pascal was one of the seventeenth century's most remarkable and creative figures. From science to scepticism; mystical experience to distraction; religion to politics, self-love, and death, Pascal's thinking was far-reaching. In this captivating biography, Graham Tomlin explores Pascal's short but extraordinary life and the sweeping impact and relevance of his ideas to the modern world.

Graham Tomlin is the Director of the Centre for Culture Witness, the initiative behind Seen & Unseen. He was Bishop of Kensington from 2015-2022 and was deeply involved in the church’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire. He taught theology at Oxford University for many years before becoming the founding Dean of St Mellitus College.

6pm Opening drinks

7.30pm Event closes 

This event is free to attend but, if you're in a position to do so, any donations will grant you access to our Behind The Seen community, helping people everywhere encounter Christian perspectives on life and culture. 

'Readable and expert - a brilliant guide to the life and thought of 17th century Europe's supreme polymath,' Tom Holland

'A beautiful, accessible account of one of the era's most remarkable lives,' Katherine Rundell