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.
ISBN: | 9780241952320 |
Publication date: | 10th April 2014 |
Author: | Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 352 pages |
Genres: |
Christianity History of religion |