Silence

A Christian History

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diarmaid Macculloch

159 kr

Skickas måndag 1/12

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-04-10
Mått130 x 199 x 21 mm
Vikt262 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN9780241952320

Tillhör följande kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Biblar inom Filosofi och religion

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, and Fellow of St Cross College and of Campion Hall. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (2004) won the Wolfson Prize and the British Academy Prize. A History of Christianity (2010), which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series, was awarded the Cundill and Hessell-Tiltman Prizes. He was knighted in 2012 and was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2022.