Keeping God's Silence
Subtitle: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Challenges in Contemporary Theology)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: November 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781405118996
Subjects: Christian theology; Nature & existence of God; Religion - Theology; General; Theology; Religion; Spiritual life; Religious aspects; Christian Theology - Ethics; Christian Theology - General; SPIRITUAL LIFE_CHRISTIANITY; Self-Help / General; Christianity - Theology - General; History; Christianity; Silence; Spiritualiteit.; gtt
First sentence: How do we know what it is that cannot be spoken about and must therefore be passed over in silence?
Description: "This book provides a new perspective on Christian practices of silence. Rachel Muers, a significant Quaker theologian, develops a theological understanding of communication to which a "responsible silence" is central. In doing so, she engages with the key issues raised for Christian theology by feminist thought, and develops an original reading of significant aspects of the theology and ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. She also presents a challenge, from the perspective of Christian theology and practice, to a communicative environment dominated by wars of words. The central theological claim explored in the book is that God listens, and that God's listening is integral to who God is."--BOOK JACKET.