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Worship as meaning : a liturgical theology for late modernity / Graham Hughes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 10.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 330 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780511675041
  • 0511675046
  • 9780511671791
  • 0511671792
  • 9780511615481
  • 0511615485
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worship as meaning.DDC classification:
  • 264/.001 21
LOC classification:
  • BV178 .H84 2003
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.74
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Contents:
Meaning in worship -- Meaning and modernity -- Comprehending meaning -- The liturgical sign (i) -- The liturgical sign (ii) -- Sign-production, sign-reception -- Liturgical theology -- At the edge of the known.
Summary: How, in this Christian age of belief, can we draw sense from the ritual acts of Christians assembled in worship? Convinced that people shape their meanings from the meanings available to them, Graham Hughes inquires into liturgical constructions of meaning within the larger cultural context of late twentieth-century meaning theory. Major theories of meaning are examined in terms of their contribution or hindrance to this meaning making: analytic philosophy, phenomenology, structuralism and deconstruction. Drawing particularly upon the work of Charles Peirce, Hughes turns to semiotic theory to analyse the construction, transmission and apprehension of meaning within an actual worship service. Finally the book analyses the ways in which various worshipping styles of western Christianity undertake this meaning making.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.

Meaning in worship -- Meaning and modernity -- Comprehending meaning -- The liturgical sign (i) -- The liturgical sign (ii) -- Sign-production, sign-reception -- Liturgical theology -- At the edge of the known.

How, in this Christian age of belief, can we draw sense from the ritual acts of Christians assembled in worship? Convinced that people shape their meanings from the meanings available to them, Graham Hughes inquires into liturgical constructions of meaning within the larger cultural context of late twentieth-century meaning theory. Major theories of meaning are examined in terms of their contribution or hindrance to this meaning making: analytic philosophy, phenomenology, structuralism and deconstruction. Drawing particularly upon the work of Charles Peirce, Hughes turns to semiotic theory to analyse the construction, transmission and apprehension of meaning within an actual worship service. Finally the book analyses the ways in which various worshipping styles of western Christianity undertake this meaning making.