Silence : a Christian history

Author(s)

• MacCulloch, Diarmaid

Bibliographic Information

Silence : a Christian history

Diarmaid MacCulloch

（Penguin books, . Penguin history religion）

Penguin, 2014, c2013

• : [pbk.]

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-247) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus's brief ministry. Besides prayer and contemplation, there are shame and evasion; careless and purposeful forgetting. Many deliberate silences are revealed: the forgetting of histories inconvenient to later Church authorities, and Christianity's problems in dealing honestly with sexuality. Behind all this is the silence of God. In a deeply personal conclusion, MacCulloch brings a message of optimism for those still seeking God beyond the clamour of over-confident certainties.

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• NCID: BB15647764
• ISBN:
  • 9780241952320
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 337 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 248.47
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Silence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00474814