Both Pascal’s Pensees and Kierkegaard’s “Christ the Prototype” deal with the promotion of authentic Christian faith. Both works present his readers with an apology for Christianity. Despite their common goal, Pascal and Kierkegaard use different apologetic strategies. In this respect, I will focus especially on the difference between audience and rhetorical strategies. Important to note is the culmination of Pascal’s apologetic strategy with the Wager Argument, which deals with one’s commitment to believe or not in God [cf. L418]. With the Wager argument, Pascal wants to show his audience that it is rational to believe in the existence of God. …