02887nam a2200493Ia 4500 ocn850862993 OCoLC 20200709055820.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130626s2012 ilua ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780830839667 0830839666 9780830866854 (electronic bk.) 083086685X (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)850862993 577669 (N$T) BV4319 .D69 2012 REL 067110 bisacsh REL 070000 bisacsh 230.01/4 23 N$TA Downing, Crystal. Changing signs of truth [electronic resource] : a Christian introduction to the semiotics of communication / Crystal L. Downing. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2012. 1 online resource (342 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface to the problem: Christ, culture and communication -- Introduction to the solution: (re)signing truth -- Signs of Christ and culture. Signs of the times; on the edge of cultural change -- Signs of God's word: following Jesus -- How signs work. Identifying signs: from rhetoric to semiotic -- Under signs: structuralism -- Controlling signs: ideology and cultural studies -- Changing signs of faith. Signs of deconstruction: maintaining the house of faith -- A place for the coin: Charles Sanders Peirce -- Placing the coin on edge: trinitarian signs -- Communication in a pluralistic world. Si(g)ns of communication: (in)tolerance versus the gift -- Antiseptic Bakhtin: healing signs of the body -- Communication on the edge: a conclusion. The importance of signs for communicating truth has been recognized throughout the ages. Crystal L. Downing traces this awareness from biblical texts, through figures from church history like John Wycliffe and William Tyndale, to more recent writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and C. S. Lewis. --from publisher description Description based on print version record. Communication Religious aspects Christianity. Semiotics Religious aspects Christianity. Signs and symbols. Christianity and culture. RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic bisacsh RELIGION / Christianity / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Downing, Crystal. Changing signs of truth. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2012 9780830839667 (DLC) 2012005239 (OCoLC)759909774 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=577669 EBSCOhost EBSC 577669 cpp1794 02 N$T 53095 53095