Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch - Silence Through Schism and Two Reformations: 451-1500

Lecture 3: Silence through schism and two Reformations: 451-1500
The significance of the threeway split in Christianity after the Council of Chalcedon (451). The purposeful Chalcedonian forgetting of Evagrius Ponticus and the contribution of an anonymous theologian who took the name Dionysius the Areopagite. The role of Augustine in the Western Church: a theologian of words, not silence. The transformation in the use of silence and its function after the Carolingian expansion of Benedictine monastic life (together with the West's discovery of pseudo-Dionysius), and the further development through the great years of Cluny Abbey. Counter-currents on silence in the medieval West, and the significance of the Iconoclastic controversy, and later hesychasm, in the Byzantine world. Tensions between clerical and lay spirituality in the late medieval West.
Recorded 26 April 2012 at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh.

[@Annemaification]

Yes indeed! First class church history and theology!

[@jostein860]

Diarmaid MacCulloch må være en av vår tids skarpeste kirkehistorikere. Alt han skriver er gjennomsyret av kunskap og analytisk akribi!
Dette er kirkehistorie og teologi av første klasse!

[@willmurphy6663]

Diarmaid I have followed you since I found you on in our time. You have taught me ecclesiastical history, and reformation history... your story telling is beyond compare... but for the first time I found these lectures a little dry...the heart was missing, but thanks as ever...

[@michaelkilcooley5376]

A great lecture - somewhat spoiled by the amateur camerwork.

[@Sportliveonline]

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