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TitleSilence : A Christian history [electronic resource]
AuthorMacCulloch, Diarmaid.
Call NoDTL 248.47 MAC
CollectionEbook
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International Standard Book Number 9780670025565
Dewey Decimal Classification Number DTL 248.47 MAC
Personal Name MacCulloch, Diarmaid.
Title Statement Silence : A Christian history [electronic resource]
Imprint New York : Viking, 2013.
Physical Description eBook
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References
Formatted Contents Note Introduction: The witness of Holmes's dog -- Part one. The Bible. Silence in Christian prehistory : the Tanakh -- The earliest Christian silences : the New Testament -- Part two. The triumph of monastic silence. Forming and breaking a church : 100-451 CE -- The Monastic Age in East and West : 451-1100 -- Part three. Silence through three reformations. From iconoclasm to Erasmus : 700-1500 -- The Protestant Reformation : 1500-1700 -- Part four. Reaching behind noise in Christian history. Silences for survival -- Things not remembered -- Silence in present and future Christianities.
Summary, Etc. "The first half of this book is a ... wide-ranging yet concise survey of the idea of silence in Christian theology and in the practices of all kinds of Christians through the centuries. In the second half, different kinds of quiet in Christian history come under scrutiny"--Review, Sunday Times (London).
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term SILENCE - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - HISTORY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term COMMUNICATION - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - CHRISTIANITY.
Electronic Location and Access http://thedtl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/834432824 DTL ePlatform Full text - Book opens through link in DTL DTL