SilenceBy: Diarmaid MacCulloch This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus's brief ministry. Besides prayer and contemplation, there are shame and evasion; careless and purposeful forgetting. Many deliberate silences are revealed: the forgetting of histories inconvenient to later