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beejai's review against another edition
3.0
This is in many ways nothing more than a rehash of MacCulloch's History of Christianity with a specific look at silence. In some ways that was what I was expecting with this. what I did not expect, and what sorely disappointed me, was the all encompassing umbrella of topics, however tenuously, he fits under the idea of silence. He scatters the idea in so many directions that there is no cohesiveness to the book. If you must read MacCulloch, you are better off sticking to his History but even there, he is only subpar compared to other works (like Justo Gonzalez's two volume history) In talking of DM a friend said, "His history is good but his interpretive bias is so strong it is hard to muddle through." That could be said even more so for Silence than his first work. The history is good enough for a couple stars. His bibliography gets him one more. But that's as generous as I am willing to be.
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