Silence
A Christian History
$27.09
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2014
Summary
Silence shows the history of Christianity in a fresh and fascinating new light.
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 hist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241952320 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241952328 |
| Author: | Diarmaid MacCulloch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University.
His works include:
- Thomas Cranmer (1996), winner of the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize.
- Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 (2004), winner of the Wolfson Prize and the British Academy Prize.
- A History of Christianity (2010), which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series and awarded the Cundill and Hessel-Tiltman Prizes.
- Silence: A Christian History (2013), published following his Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.
His most recent television series, Sex and the Church, was broadcast in 2015. He was knighted in 2012.
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