Rachel Muers is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter.

“This book is a passionate, informed and insightful inquiry into the significance of silence in Christian thinking about God and its bearing upon a theological ethics of communication.” Reviews in Religion and Theology “What starts off, quite modestly, as an exploration of what theologians and others have said about silence, develops into a serious challenge to the way theology itself is done, and indeed, to the way other researches are done, and conversation held … it is work that will yield rich insights.”Quaker Studies

• Preface and Acknowledgements. Sources.List of Abbreviations.Introduction: Beginning with Silence.1. Assessing Silence.2. Who Hears?.3. Resurrection Silence.4. Hearing the Word.5. Wisdom and Folly: Seeking places to stand.6. Hearing with God’s Ears: Interpreting practices of silence.7. Privacy, Omniscience and the Silence of God.8. Openings.Bibliography.Index