This book, the second of a major two-volume work, exposes the processes by which silence can transfigure our lives-what Maggie Ross calls `the work of silence'; it describes how lives steeped in silence can transfigure other lives unawares. It shows how the work of silence was once understood to be the foundation of the teaching of Jesus, and how this teaching was once an intrinsic part of Western Christianity; it describes some of the methods by which the institution suppressed the work of silence, and why religious institutions are afraid of silence. Above all, this book shows that the work of silence gives us a way of being in the world that is more than we can ask for or imagine.
Maggie Ross is an Anglican solitary under vows to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Title: Silence: A User's Guide - Volume 2, Application (Silence a Users Guide 2)
Author: Maggie Ross
ISBN: 9780232533484
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Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
Publication Date: 2018-02-22
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 0.1600 kg
`This is a book written out of wisdom, love, and experience. It is to be read slowly, deeply, and contemplatively. While highly informed, the scholarship folds into and out of an embodied, mindful practice. Reading demands that same practice. Only Maggie Ross could have written it as a genuine theological gift to us all.' Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, Christ Church, University of Oxford