TY - BOOK AU - Downing,Crystal TI - Changing signs of truth: a Christian introduction to the semiotics of communication AV - BV4319 .D69 2012 U1 - 230.01/4 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Downers Grove, Ill. PB - IVP Academic KW - Communication KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Semiotics KW - Signs and symbols KW - Christianity and culture KW - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Christianity / General KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=577669 ER -