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MacCulloch, Diarmaid
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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.

Title Silence : a Christian history / Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Publisher London
New York : Allen Lane
Creation Date 2013
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-304) and index.
Content 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.
Extent xii, 337 pages
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990044146710205171

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