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Informationen zum Autor Graham Hughes is Lecturer Emeritus in Liturgical Studies at United Theological College and Academic Associate at the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Sydney. He is the author of The Place of Prayer (1998), Beyond our Dreaming (1996), Leading in Prayer (1992) and Hebrews and Hermeneutics (Cambridge, 1981). Klappentext How! in this age of belief! can we make sense of the act of Christian worship? Convinced that people shape their meanings from those available to them! Graham Hughes inquires into liturgical constructions of meaning! within the larger context of late twentieth-century meaning theory. Drawing particularly upon the work of Charles Peirce! Hughes employs semiotic theory to analyze the construction! transmission and apprehension of meaning within an actual worship service. This book will appeal to teachers and students of theology! clergy and informed lay Christians. Zusammenfassung How can we draw sense from the ritual acts of Christians assembled in worship? This book examines worship from the points of view of modern and late modern theories of meaning. It applies the semiotic theory of Charles Peirce to Christian worship and surveys the current styles of liturgical theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Making of Meaning: 1. Meaning in worship; 2. 'Theory of Meaning' at the end of the twentieth century; 3. Dimensions of a theory of meaning for worship; Part II. Signs of Wonder: 4. The liturgical sign (i); 5. The liturgical sign (ii); 6. Sign production, sign reception; 7. Liturgical theology; 8. At the edge of the known; Epilogue; Bibliography.
