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Keeping God's Silence Rachel Muers (University of Leeds)

Keeping God's Silence By Rachel Muers (University of Leeds)

Keeping God's Silence by Rachel Muers (University of Leeds)


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Summary

Offers a fresh perspective on Christian practices of silence. Written by a Quaker theologian, this title considers the theological and ethical significance of these practices. It relates silence, listening and communication to major contemporary issues. It also takes forward theological engagement with feminist thought.

Keeping God's Silence Summary

Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication by Rachel Muers (University of Leeds)

This ground-breaking book provides a new perspective on Christian practices of silence.
  • An original, theologically informed work, written by a significant Quaker theologian
  • Provides a new perspective on Christian practices of silence
  • Considers the theological and ethical significance of these practices
  • Relates silence, listening and communication to major contemporary issues
  • Takes forward theological engagement with feminist thought
  • Contributes to ongoing research into the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Keeping God's Silence Reviews

This book is a passionate, informed and insightful inquiry into the significance of silence in Christian thinking about God and its bearing upon a theological ethics of communication. Reviews in Religion and Theology

What starts off, quite modestly, as an exploration of what theologians and others have said about silence, develops into a serious challenge to the way theology itself is done, and indeed, to the way other researches are done, and conversation held ... it is work that will yield rich insights.
Quaker Studies

About Rachel Muers (University of Leeds)

Rachel Muers is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Sources.

List of Abbreviations.

Introduction: Beginning with Silence.

1. Assessing Silence.

2. Who Hears?.

3. Resurrection Silence.

4. Hearing the Word.

5. Wisdom and Folly: Seeking places to stand.

6. Hearing with God's Ears: Interpreting practices of silence.

7. Privacy, Omniscience and the Silence of God.

8. Openings.

Bibliography.

Index

Additional information

NLS9781405119009
9781405119009
1405119004
Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication by Rachel Muers (University of Leeds)
New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2004-09-17
258
N/A
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