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Silence: A Christian History
Category: Books > Church > Church History
Author/Artist: DIARMAID MACCULLOCH
ISBN / ID: 9780241952320
Publisher: Penguin Books
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$35.00
  
Description: MacCulloch begins by unraveling the surprisingly mixed attitudes of Judaism to silence, the Jewish and Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine and the silences which were part of Jesus's brief ministry and witness. He describes how the Early Church negotiated the competing claims of silence and noise and how monasticism, a movement not original to Christianity but imported into it, came to dominate Christian worship and practice. He highlights the importance of long-forgotten or hidden Christian personalities in setting patterns of silence and contemplation still central to Christianity's approaches to God. The story moves to the sudden eruption of relentless noise in the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation's efforts to defend centuries of insights about listening rather than speaking.
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