Silence : A Christian history

"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... Full description

Main Author:	MacCulloch, Diarmaid.
Published:	New York : Viking, 2013
Subjects:	SILENCE - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - HISTORY. COMMUNICATION - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - CHRISTIANITY.
Online Access:	Full text - Book opens through link in DTL
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Table of Contents:

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.

Silence : A Christian history

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