Silence A Christian History |
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Author:
| MacCulloch, Diarmaid |
ISBN: | 978-0-241-95232-0 |
Publication Date: | May 2014 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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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'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...
More DescriptionThis 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.