Holiness, Speech and Silence

Nicholas Lash shows how the main contours of the Christian doctrine of God may be mapped onto principal features of our culture and its predicaments. After an introductory chapter on ''The Question of God Today'', Nicholas Lash considers - in chapters entitled ''Globalization and Holiness'', ''Cacophony and Conversation'' and ''Attending to Silence'' - three dimensions of our contemporary predicament: globalization, a crisis of language, and the pain and darkness of the world, in relation to the doctrine of God as Spirit, Word, and Father.