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Author MacCulloch, Diarmaid.

Title Silence : a Christian history / Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Viking, 2013.

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  248.47 MAC    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  248.47 M133S    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  248.47 MACCULLOCH    Check Shelf
Description xii, 337 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
Note Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-304) and index.
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.
Summary "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 Silence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
Communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
Communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00869995
Silence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst01118522
Stilte. (NL-LeOCL)078677033
Tystnad -- religiösa aspekter.
Kommunikation -- religiösa aspekter.
Kristendom -- historia.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Nonfiction.
ISBN 9780670025565 (hardcover)
0670025569 (hardcover)
9780143125815 (pbk.)
0143125818 (pbk.)
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