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100 1 _aDowning, Crystal.
245 1 0 _aChanging signs of truth
_h[electronic resource] :
_ba Christian introduction to the semiotics of communication /
_cCrystal L. Downing.
260 _aDowners Grove, Ill. :
_bIVP Academic,
_cc2012.
300 _a1 online resource (342 p.) :
_bill.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 _aPreface 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.
520 _aThe 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
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCommunication
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 0 _aSemiotics
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 0 _aSigns and symbols.
650 0 _aChristianity and culture.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aDowning, Crystal.
_tChanging signs of truth.
_dDowners Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2012
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