A devout writer found peace by reading God’s silence as sufficient Scriptural revelation.

Evidence

The author was made more anxious because he received no reply from God to his impetration, no special illumination; but this additional worry was resolved by Gregory’s Moralia; God speaks only once, and does not repeat Himself or answer individual problems individually. Semel loquitur Deus et secundo ad ipsum non repetit … Deus nobis ad omnia verba non respondit, id est, cogitationibus singulorum … In Scripture was God’s sufficient revelation, and it was there that Ricoldo was able to recognise the only answer to his original problem, with which he would be content in his Disputatio: some God punished as enemies, others, that they might fear Him, as friends. Ricoldo’s basic concern for Christianity in the East remained unappeased, and he had to learn to accept his anxiety. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 739

Categorization

• XREF: The idea that God speaks once and does not answer individual petitions individually resonates with the silence-as-positive-presence theme from the soundscape books — divine non-response reframed as a kind of completeness rather than absence.
• QUESTION: How did Gregory’s Moralia justify reading God’s single-speech silence as normative — and did Ricoldo’s acceptance genuinely console him or only mask persistent doubt?