Diarmaid MacCulloch: Silence in Christianity Saturday 15 November 2014

12:00pm

Duration: 1 Hour

Venue: Theatre, John Mackintosh Hall

Venue

Ticket Price: £10

Broadcaster, writer and historian Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch introduces his latest work, Silence in Christian History. MacCulloch, well known for his 2009 BBC TV series and book A History of Christianity, looks at silence throughout Christianity, including prayer, mystical contemplation, shame, evasion and careless and purposeful forgetting. He describes the early Church’s attitude to the competing claims of silence and noise, shows how monasticism came to dominate Christian worship, and looks at the sudden eruption of noise in the Protestant reformation.

MacCulloch is professor of the history of the church at the University of Oxford.  He is also a broadcaster and author. His books include Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. A History of Christianity won the Cundill Prize, the world’s largest history prize.  It was presented for television by MacCulloch in a very successful BBC 2 series.  His most recent television series, How God Made the English, was broadcast in March 2012, and, in 2013, he also presented a documentary on Thomas Cromwell and his place in ecclesiastical and political history.

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