Includes bibliography

I. [Blaise] Pascal / The Provincial letters -- Grace and freedom -- The apology, the greatness and misery of man -- Faith and reason -- The evidence for Christianity -- The end of Pascal's life -- II. & III. [Soren] Kierkegaard / Anxiety and freedom -- Philosophy and faith -- History -- The church -- The characteristics of existential thinking -- Kierkegaard's irrationalism -- Protestantism and Monasticism -- Guilt -- Despair -- The end of Kierkegaard's career -- IV. [Martin] Heidegger / Heidegger and existentialism -- Being and time -- The essence of truth -- What is metaphysics -- God is dead -- V. [Jean-Paul] Sartre / Introduction to being and nothing -- Interpersonal relations -- Freedom -- A critique of belief in God -- Ethics -- VI. [Karl] Jaspers / World, self, and transcendence -- Existential communication and boundary situations -- Metaphysics, the ciphers, and shipwreck -- Philosophy, religion, and faith -- VII. [Gabriel] Marcel / The Ontological mystery -- Two types of truth -- Personality and freedom -- Transcendence -- Faith -- Community and freedom -- Grace and freedom -- Faith and reason -- Evil and death; hope and salvation