SILENCE by Diarmaid MacCulloch ( 9780241952320 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

SILENCE
A CHRISTIAN HISTORY

By:

Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0241952328

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9780241952320

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

10 April, 2014

Pages:

352

Description:

Unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. This book considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus' brief ministry.

Synopsis:

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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