Silence: A Christian History
Author(s): Diarmaid MacCulloch
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' 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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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.257
- : 31 March 2014
- : 198mm X 129mm X 20mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2014
- : books
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- : 352
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Diarmaid MacCulloch