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How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art

By: Crystal Downing

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How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art

By: Crystal Downing

Crystal L. Downing introduces students (especially those in the arts) to postmodernism: where it came from, and how Christians can best understand, critique and benefit from its insights.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830827587

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9780830827589

Changing Signs of Truth

A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication

By: Crystal L. Downing

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Changing Signs of Truth

A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication

By: Crystal L. Downing

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.

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InterVarsity Press

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Subversive

Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers

By: Crystal Downing

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Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers

By: Crystal Downing

Known for her bestselling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C.S. Lewis. This pioneering woman not only forged a literary career for herself but also spoke about faith and culture in revolutionary ways as she addressed the evergreen question of to what extent faith should hold on to tradition and to what extent it should evolve with a changing culture. Thanks to her unmatched wisdom, prophetic tone, and insistent strength, Dorothy Sayers is a voice that we cannot afford to ignore. Providing a blueprint for bridge-building in contemporary, polarizing contexts, Subversive shows how Sayers used edgy, often hilarious metaphors to ignite new ways to think about Christianity, shocking people into seeing the truth of ancient doctrine in a new light. Urging readers to reassess interpretations of the Bible that impede the cause of Christ, Sayers helps twenty-first-century Christians navigate a society increasingly suspicious of evangelical vocabularies and find new ways to talk and think about faith and culture. Ultimately, she will inspire believers, on both the right and the left, to evaluate how and why their language perpetuates divisive certitude rather than the hopeful humility of faith, and will show us all a better way forward.

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Broadleaf Books

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How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art

By: Crystal Downing

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How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art

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Crystal L. Downing introduces students (especially those in the arts) to postmodernism: where it came from, and how Christians can best understand, critique and benefit from its insights.

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Changing Signs of Truth

A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication

By: Crystal L. Downing

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A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication

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What signals are you sending when you share the gospel? 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. In the nineteenth century, this legacy of interest in the activity of signs brought about a new field of academic study. In this book, Downing puts the discipline of semiotics within reach for beginners through analysis of the movement s key theorists, Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Sanders Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin and others. She then draws out the implications for effective communication of the gospel of Jesus Christ within our shifting cultural landscape. Her fundamental thesis is that "Failure to understand how signs work--as effects of the cultures we seek to affect--inevitably undermines not just our political and moral agendas but, worse, the gospel of Jesus Christ." Writing with humor, clarity and flare, Downing lucidly explains the sophisticated thinking of leaders in semiotics for nonexperts. Of value to all those interested in communication in any context, this work will be of special interest to students majoring in communications or English or to students in evangelism and preaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.

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Book's by Crystal L. Downing

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Changing Signs of Truth

Changing Signs of Truth

Subversive

Subversive

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Changing Signs of Truth

Changing Signs of Truth

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