Silence: A Christian History

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Price : 22.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780241952320
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Books Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.257
Publication date : 31 March 2014
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 20mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Availability date : 01 May 2014
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Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Edition : 1
Pages : 352
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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.