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Christian Semiotics and the Language of Faith

Author : Alex Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595424092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Christian Semiotics and the Language of Faith written by Alex Scott and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relation between language and religious faith? To what extent do we depend on the use of language in order to express our religious feelings and beliefs? Semiotics is a field of study that seeks to answer these questions by investigating the meaning of religious symbols and by examining their uses, purposes, and functions. Christian Semiotics and the Language of Faith discusses the work of a number of important thinkers in semiotics, including Saussure, Peirce, Morris, Barthes, Hjelmslev, and Eco. The work of these writers provides insight into many aspects of religious symbolism, including the relation between signs and their referents, the iconicity of signs and symbols, the nature of "meaning" and signification, and the function of signs as signifiers of the sacred. Author Alex Scott discusses the writings of Todorov, Greimas, Foucault, Bakhtin, and others, describing the applications of discourse analysis to theological and literary study. He also examines the usefulness of discourse analysis as a method of studying biblical and liturgical language. Christian Semiotics and the Language of Faith embraces a variety of disciplines, including semiotics, the philosophy of language, ethics, religion and literature, and theology. This multidisciplinary approach can provide us with a means of understanding the symbolic importance of many aspects of religious faith.

Semiotics of the Christian Imagination

Author : Domenico Pietropaolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350064130
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of the Christian Imagination written by Domenico Pietropaolo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the fall of Man and the Church's semiotic perception of the Divine plan for Redemption. The book includes a chapter detailing the theory of signs, based on a close reading of primary sources, and has nine further chapters on the meaning-making inherent in ideas of the Fall and Redemption of mankind. These are filtered through and given material representation by the semiotic paradigms of various cultural fields, including philology, verbal arts and science. Central to this practice - and to the book's message - are two themes of theological semiotics fundamental to man's understanding of himself in the larger scheme of things. Two of these include the theology of the Fall and a sacramental theory of signs. The theory is grounded in the doctrine of analogy, and this is the only reliable cognitive link between the immanence of the thinking subject and the transcendence that is the object of thought.

Changing Signs of Truth

Author : Crystal L. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083086685X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Changing Signs of Truth written by Crystal L. Downing and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.

Semiotics of Religion

Author : Robert A. Yelle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441172378
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Religion written by Robert A. Yelle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the heyday of Lévi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics of Religion reassesses key semiotic theories in the light of religious data. Yelle examines the semiotics of religion from structural and historical perspectives, drawing on Peircean linguistic anthropology, Jakobsonian poetics, comparative religion and several theological traditions. This book pays particular attention to the transformation of religious symbolism under modernization and the rise of a culture of the printed book. Among the topics addressed are: - ritual repetition and the poetics of ritual performance - magic and the belief in a natural (iconic) language - Protestant literalism and iconoclasm - disenchantment and secularization - Holiness, arbitrariness, and agency Building from the legacy of structuralism while interrogating several key doctrines of that movement, Semiotics of Religion both introduces the field to a new generation and charts a course for future research.

Sign, Method and the Sacred

Author : Jason Cronbach Van Boom
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110694921
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Sign, Method and the Sacred written by Jason Cronbach Van Boom and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology? The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors. The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.

God in the Labyrinth

Author : Andrew Hollingsworth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153267984X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book God in the Labyrinth written by Andrew Hollingsworth and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In God in the Labyrinth, Andrew Hollingsworth uses Umberto Eco’s semiotic concept of the model encyclopedia as the basis for a new model and approach to systematic theology. Following an in-depth analysis of the model encyclopedia in Eco’s semiotics, he demonstrates the implications this model has for epistemology, hermeneutics, and doctrinal development. This work aims to bridge the unfortunate gap in research that exists between the fields of systematic theology and semiotics by demonstrating semiotic insights for theological method.

The Analogy of Signs

Author : Rory Misiewicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978710038
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Analogy of Signs written by Rory Misiewicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longstanding debate over how God-talk is intelligible gravitates around how we should understand the putative answer, “by analogy.” For some contemporary Christian theologians, analogy involves an ontological claim about creaturely and divine being (i.e., an analogy of being). For others, it involves a semantic or syntactical structure that legitimates the linguistic performances associated with analogy (i.e., a grammatical analogy). Still others appeal to faith in God’s self-disclosure in Jesus Christ (i.e., an analogy of faith). Rory Misiewicz argues that all of these approaches fall flat in their explanatory efforts. He draws upon the work of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce to rethink the relation between God and human beings. He argues that Christian theologians may view that relation as being established by an “analogy of signs”: both God and human beings are univocally involved in semiosis, or sign-process, and the confirmation of God’s semiotic identity is found in the revelation of God in the person of Jesus, the incarnate Son of God. Therefore, ordinary analogical language is intelligible, for divine signs are commensurate with human signs.

Acts of Interpretation

Author : Naomi Janowitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110768607
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Acts of Interpretation by : Naomi Janowitz

Download or read book Acts of Interpretation written by Naomi Janowitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient authors debated proper verbal and non-verbal signs as representations of divinity. These understanding of signs were based on ideas drawn from language and thus limited due to a their partial understanding of the multi-functionality of signs. Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics, as adapted by anthropological linguists including Michael Silverstein, better explains the contextual linkages ("performativity") of ancient religious signs such as divine names. Sign meaning is always dependent on processes of interpretation and is always open to reinterpretation. Focusing on these processes permits a more detailed analysis of the ancient evidence. Examples are drawn from ancient Israelite verbal and non-verbal divine representation, the apostle Paul’s linguistic letter/spirit model, Christian debates about the limits of language to best represent the deity, Josephus’ aniconic advertisement of Jewish rites, the multi-layered divine representations in the Dura-Europos synagogue, the diverse "performativity" of Jewish ascent liturgies, and—the single modern example—the role of art at Burning Man. Divine representation is the basis for ritual efficacy even as sign meaning is a constant source of contention.

Theology Beyond Metaphysics

Author : Anthony Bartlett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172526420X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Theology Beyond Metaphysics written by Anthony Bartlett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theory of human origins that is one-half Charles Darwin and one-half Cain and Abel is bound to entail a lot of rethinking of traditional themes. Rene Girard's thesis of original human violence and the Bible's power to reveal it has been around for more than a generation, but its consequences for Christian theology are still only slowly being unpacked. Anthony Bartlett's book makes a signal contribution, representing an astonishing leap forward in understanding what a biblical disclosure of founding violence means for Christian thought and life. If human language arose directly out of the primal experience of murder, then semiotics becomes a core area for theological examination. Tracing the discipline of semiotics through postmodern thinkers, then back through its birth in the Latin era, Bartlett shows how Girard's thought is itself a semiotic emergence, beyond standard Christian metaphysics. Above all, Girardian theory of human signs demands we see the generative impact of violence in our language and thought, and then, conversely, that the Word of God, crucified without retaliation and risen in the same identity, brings a totally new sign and relation into history, offering a thoroughgoing transformation of human life and meaning.

Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation

Author : Cyril Orji
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227906357
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation written by Cyril Orji and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation argues that though it is a difficult and delicate task, inculturation is still a requisite demand of a World Church and that without it the Church is unrecognisable and unsustainable. The book also suggests that the past failures of inculturation experiments in Africa can be overcome only by critically applying the science of semiotics, which can serve as an antidote to the nature of human knowing and reductionism that characterised earlier attempts to make Christianity African to the African. Drawing from the semiotic works of C.S. Peirce, Clifford Geertz, and Bernard Lonergan, Cyril Orji shows why semiotics is best suited to an African theology of inculturation and offers ten pinpointed precepts, identified as 'Habits', which underline the attentiveness, reasonableness, and responsibility required in a semiotic approach to a theology of inculturation. The 'Habits' are also akin to the imperatives inherent in the notion of catholicity - that catholicity is not identified with uniformity but with reconciled diversity, and also that catholicity demands different forms in different places, times, and cultural settings.

The Language of Faith

Author : Samuel Laeuchli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Faith written by Samuel Laeuchli and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Problem of Presence

Author : Matthew Engelke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940040
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Problem of Presence written by Matthew Engelke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as "the Christians who don’t read the Bible." They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God "live and direct" from the Holy Spirit. In this insightful and sensitive historical ethnography, Matthew Engelke documents how this rejection of scripture speaks to longstanding concerns within Christianity over mediation and authority. The Bible, of course, has been a key medium through which Christians have recognized God’s presence. But the apostolics perceive scripture as an unnecessary, even dangerous, mediator. For them, the materiality of the Bible marks a distance from the divine and prohibits the realization of a live and direct faith. Situating the Masowe case within a broad comparative framework, Engelke shows how their rejection of textual authority poses a problem of presence—which is to say, how the religious subject defines, and claims to construct, a relationship with the spiritual world through the semiotic potentials of language, actions, and objects. Written in a lively and accessible style, A Problem of Presence makes important contributions to the anthropology of Christianity, the history of religions in Africa, semiotics, and material culture studies.

The Communication of the Christian Faith

Author : Hendrik Kraemer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Communication of the Christian Faith written by Hendrik Kraemer and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Semiotic Christology

Author : Cyril Orji
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725269171
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Semiotic Christology written by Cyril Orji and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology. In the light of the trend towards evolutionary worldview, the book goes beyond description and critically engages the sign system of C. S. Peirce, which it sees as a conceptual tool and method for a better understanding of some of the basic issues in Christology.

Sign, Text, Scripture

Author : George Aichele
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781850756910
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Sign, Text, Scripture written by George Aichele and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the field of semiotics specifically directed to students of the Bible as well as to biblical scholars trained in other methodologies. The primary focus is on what semiotics is now-how contemporary scholars actually approach the Bible semiotically. Attention is given to the history and varieties of semiotic theory, because as it has influenced the work of more recent thinkers, and because postmodern reappraisals of semiotics call for rereading of biblical texts. The book is organized according to topics ('Sign', 'Message', 'Text', etc.), which provide a way to interrogate semiotics as a system. This stimulating account also includes, for good measure, reflections on what theology has become, for believer and unbeliever alike, in a post-Nietzschean, post-Heideggerian world: What does it mean to see theology as 'ideology'-a complex and never wholly conscious network of understandings, preconceptions, and expectations about 'the way things are'.

The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

Author : Marcia L. Colish
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803264472
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition) written by Marcia L. Colish and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christianity faced the problem of the human word versus Christ the Word. Could language accurately describe spiritual reality? The Mirror of Language brilliantly traces the development of one prominent theory of signs from Augustine through Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Their shared epistemology validated human language as an authentic but limited index of preexistent reality, both material and spiritual. This sign theory could thereby account for the ways men receive, know, and transmit religious knowledge, always mediated through faith. Marcia L. Colish demonstrates how the three theologians used different branches of the medieval trivium to express a common sign theory: Augustine stressed rhetoric, Anselm shifted to grammar (including grammatical proofs of God's existence), and Thomas Aquinas stressed dialectic. Dante, the one poet included in this study, used the Augustinian sign theory to develop a Christian poetics that culminates in the Divine Comedy. The author points out not only the commonality but also the sharp contrasts between these writers and shows the relation between their sign theories and the intellectual ferment of the times. When first published in 1968, The Mirror of Language was recognized as a pathfinding study. This completely revised edition incorporates the scholarship of the intervening years and reflects the refinements of the author's thought. Greater prominence is given to the role of Stoicism, and sharper attention is paid to some of the thinkers and movements surrounding the major thinkers treated. Concerns of semiotics, philosophy, and literary criticism are elucidated further. The original thesis, still controversial, is now even wider ranging and more salient to current intellectual debate.

Fidelity and Translation

Author : Paul A. Soukup
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781580510394
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Fidelity and Translation written by Paul A. Soukup and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that suggest ways to critically evaluate, assess, and use new media to communicate the message of Scripture. Considers the oral, visual, and performative nature of the narrative as well as contemporary communication philosophy.