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# When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1997.)

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    A book addressed to preachers
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2023*

In my opinion, this is an interesting book with probing thoughts and questions. However, I think readers should read and be aware that it is what is in the parentheses—a lecture on preaching primarily to preachers. She deals more with what we say, what we don’t say, etc. than the silence of God.

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    Trying to respect the un-nameable
  

*by W***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2012*

This is a slight little book, size-wise, but I have three times as many highlights in it as any other book I own. It is dense with ideas like a fruitcake is full of goodies.It is targeted toward pastors, but approachable for anyone with a moderate understanding of theology. My mom bought copies for my siblings and I because she found it so meaningful, and I can certainly understand that impulse.Taylor is teasing out what it means that we don't hear from God anymore. God used to talk to the Israelites all the time, but as the Bible progresses, we hear God's voice less and less. She argues that part of this is because we now live in a desert of noise, and we are thirsty for the Word, but can't make it out amidst all the other things we are listening to.I want to share so many quotes with you, but I will settle for a few, to give you the flavor of her language and logic."Without limits, we would have no feel for the infinite. Without limits, we would be freed from our longing for what lies beyond. It is precisely our inability to say God that teaches us who God is. When we run out of words, we are very near the God whose name is unsayable.""At their request, God never spoke to all the people again. Secondary speech replaced primary speech. The pillar of fire and cloud that led the people through the wilderness gave way to a tabernacle they could carry around with them. The hot lava of God's voice cooled into the six hundred thirteen commandments of the law."On a personal level, I was struck by this quote:"Perhaps there is no proof a famine exists except for the fact that people are hungry. In the land of plenty, the source of that hunger can be difficult to diagnose. It is often not until we have tried to ease it with everything else we know that we discover by process of elimination our hunger for God. Our problem is not too few rations, but too many. The proof that we are in the midst of a famine of the Word are the suffocating piles of our own dead words that rise up around us on every side. It is because they do not nourish us that we require so many of them. It takes thousands of words, coming at us every moment, to distract us from the terrible silence within."There is a nutritional deficiency disease called kwashiokor. It is not an overall lack of calories, but a lack of protein and micronutrients. People can fill their bellies with carbohydrates and not feel hunger pangs, but they are still lacking, to the point of death. Her statements here made me think about how we can feel like we are consuming enough to feed our souls, but still not feel safe and nourished.There are some really painful moments of realization for me in this book. Somehow, the image of Jesus on the cross asking for word from his father, and his father giving him nothing, not bread nor even a stone, was one of the saddest crucifixion narratives I've read.

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    A must read for every peacher
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2021*

Words cannot do justice to what Taylor does in this work. A must read for every preacher!  Her humor for life and reverence for the Lord come through this work. A book I will read again and again.

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