Silence by MacCulloch, Diarmaid -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Witness of Holmes’s Dog PART ONE | The Bible

1. Silence in Christian Prehistory: The Tanakh

ISRAEL AND THE CELEBRATION OF NOISE A GOD WHO SPEAKS ‘BE STILL BEFORE THE LORD’ THE SUFFERING SERVANT SILENCE, PLATO AND THE CREATOR-GOD

2. The Earliest Christian Silences: The New Testament

JESUS: ENDING SILENCE JESUS: EMBRACING SILENCE THE GOSPELS INTERPRET JESUS PAUL’S NOISY CHRISTIANS ‘ABOUT HALF AN HOUR’

PART TWO | The Triumph of Monastic Silence

3. Forming and Breaking a Church: 100–451 CE

IGNATIUS, BISHOPS AND THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT GNOSTICS AND SILENCE CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY, SILENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHERS MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS THE FIRST ASCETICS AND MONKS DESERT FATHERS? ‘THAT YONDER’ EVAGRIUS: MEDITATION AND CONTEMPLATION

4. The Monastic Age in East and West: 451–1100

SILENCE BEYOND CHALCEDON DIONYSIUS VERSUS AUGUSTINE MONKS IN THE LATIN WEST: THE RULE OF ST BENEDICT DIONYSIUS AND CLUNY NEW ORDERS FOR THE WESTERN CHURCH

PART THREE | Silence through Three Reformations

5. From Iconoclasm to Erasmus: 700–1500

ICONS: CONTEMPLATION FOR ALL THE LATIN WEST: A DIFFERENT PATH ORTHODOXY AND HESYCHASM GREGORIAN REFORM IN THE WEST MONKS AND MYSTICS THE DEVOTIO MODERNA AND ERASMUS

6. The Protestant Reformation: 1500–1700

JUSTIFYING PROTESTANT NOISE MUSIC AND CHURCH BUILDINGS PROTESTANTS, INNER SILENCE AND TOLERANCE RADICAL PROTESTANTS: WORD AND SPIRIT STUART ENGLAND AND THE QUAKERS TRIDENTINE CATHOLICISM: DEFENDING TRADITIONS TRIDENTINE MYSTICS AND THEIR TRIALS

PART FOUR | Reaching behind Noise in Christian History

7. Silences for Survival

NICODEMISM: NAME AND THING IBERIAN JEWS: CONVERSOS NICODEMITES IN REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION ENGLAND: A VARIETY OF NICODEMITES REFORMATION RADICALS: WORD AND SILENCE GAY ANGLO-CATHOLICS: LET HE WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR

8. Things Not Remembered

BUILDING IDENTITY THROUGH FORGETFULNESS SILENCE, SEX AND GENDER SHAME: A DARK THEME CONCEALING CLERICAL CHILD ABUSE WESTERN CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST CHRISTIANS, THE BIBLE AND SLAVERY

9. Silence in Present and Future Christianities

RETROSPECT: WILD-TRACKS VARIETIES OF MODERN CHRISTIAN SILENCE WHISTLE-BLOWING ECUMENISM IN SILENCE MUSIC AND SILENCE PATTERNS IN SCRIPTURE, SILENCE AND SIN