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Silence : a Christian history 🔍
Allen Lane/Penguin Books, Always learning, London, 2013
MacCulloch, Diarmaid 🔍
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We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are many forms of religious silence, from contemplation and prayer to repression and evasion. In his latest work, MacCulloch considers Jesus''s strategic use of silence in his confrontation with Pontius Pilate and traces the impact of the first mystics in Syria on monastic tradition. He discusses the complicated fate of silence in Protestant and evangelical tradition and confronts the more sinister institutional forms of silence. A groundbreaking book by one of our greatest historians, Silence challenges our fundamental views of spirituality and illuminates the deepest mysteries of faith. - Amazon
Alternative title
Silence in Christian history
Alternative author
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Alternative publisher
London ; New York: Allen Lane
Alternative publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Alternative publisher
Ladybird Books Ltd
Alternative publisher
Particular Books
Alternative publisher
Penguin Classics
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
London ; New York, 2013
Alternative edition
New York, 2014
Alternative edition
2014-04-10
Alternative description
xii, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Unravels polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. The author considers the mixed attitudes of Judaism to silence, Jewish and Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus's brief ministry and witness
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-304) and index
Introduction : the witness of Holmes's dog -- Silence in Christian prehistory : the Tanakh -- The earliest Christian silences : the New Testament -- Forming and breaking a church : 100-451 CE -- The monastic age in East and West : 451-1100 -- From iconoclasm to Erasmus : 700-1500 -- The Protestant Reformation : 1500-1700 -- Silences for survival -- Things not remembered -- Silence in present and future Christianities
date open sourced
2023-06-28
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