| Preface and Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: The Witness of Holmes's Dog |
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1 Silence in Christian Prehistory: The Tanakh |
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Israel and the Celebration of Noise |
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16 | (3) |
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`Be still before the Lord' |
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19 | (3) |
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22 | (2) |
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Silence, Plato and the Creator-God |
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2 The Earliest Christian Silences: The New Testament |
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33 | (4) |
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The Gospels Interpret Jesus |
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37 | (4) |
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41 | (6) |
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47 | (6) |
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PART TWO The Triumph of Monastic Silence |
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3 Forming and Breaking a Church: 100-451 CE |
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Ignatius, Bishops and the Great Disappointment |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (5) |
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Catholic Christianity, Silence and the Philosophers |
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61 | (3) |
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64 | (5) |
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The First Ascetics and Monks |
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69 | (5) |
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78 | (2) |
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Evagrius: Meditation and Contemplation |
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80 | (4) |
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4 The Monastic Age in East and West: 451-1100 |
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Dionysius versus Augustine |
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86 | (6) |
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Monks in the Latin West: The Rule of St Benedict |
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92 | (3) |
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95 | (3) |
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New Orders for the Western Church |
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PART THREE Silence through Three Reformations |
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5 From Iconoclasm to Erasmus: 700-1500 |
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Icons: Contemplation for All |
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105 | (3) |
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The Latin West: A Different Path |
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108 | (2) |
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110 | (4) |
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Gregorian Reform in the West |
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114 | (5) |
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119 | (5) |
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The Devotio Moderna and Erasmus |
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6 The Protestant Reformation: 1500-1700 |
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Justifying Protestant Noise |
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Music and Church Buildings |
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131 | (5) |
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Protestants, Inner Silence and Tolerance |
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136 | (4) |
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Radical Protestants: Word and Spirit |
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140 | (4) |
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Stuart England and the Quakers |
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144 | (6) |
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Tridentine Catholicism: Defending Traditions |
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150 | (5) |
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Tridentine Mystics and their Trials |
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155 | (8) |
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PART FOUR Reaching behind Noise in Christian History |
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Nicodemism: Name and Thing |
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166 | (1) |
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Nicodemites in Reformation and Counter-Reformation |
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England: A Variety of Nicodemites |
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174 | (4) |
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Reformation Radicals: Word and Silence |
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178 | (6) |
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Gay Anglo-Catholics: Let He who Has Ears to Hear |
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184 | (7) |
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Building Identity through Forgetfulness |
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191 | (5) |
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196 | (6) |
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202 | (1) |
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Concealing Clerical Child Abuse |
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203 | (4) |
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Western Christianity and the Holocaust |
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207 | (5) |
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Christians, the Bible and Slavery |
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212 | (5) |
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9 Silence in Present and Future Christianities |
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217 | (23) |
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217 | (5) |
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Varieties of Modern Christian Silence |
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222 | (3) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (3) |
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231 | (3) |
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Patterns in Scripture, Silence and Sin |
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234 | (6) |
| Further Reading |
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240 | (8) |
| Notes |
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| Index |
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