a Christian introduction to the semiotics of communication Downing, Crystal. creator text bibliography Electronic books. ilu Downers Grove, Ill IVP Academic c2012 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (342 p.) : ill. 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 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. Crystal L. Downing. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Communication Religious aspects Christianity Semiotics Religious aspects Christianity Signs and symbols Christianity and culture RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic RELIGION / Christianity / General BV4319 .D69 2012 230.01/4 Downing, Crystal. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2012 (DLC) 2012005239 (OCoLC)759909774 9780830866854 (electronic bk.) 083086685X (electronic bk.) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=577669 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=577669 N$T 130626 20200709055820.0 ocn850862993