Signs and Meanings

by R.A. Markus

This book is based upon the author's Forwood Lectures for 1995 in the University of Liverpool. The first two chapters incorporate the full texts of these and study early Christian conceptions of signs and signification, and investigate the ways in which Christian authors, especially Augustine of Hippo and Gregory the Great, made use of theories of meaning in their ways of interpreting Scriptures. Their interest in the notions of communities based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161097400X
• ISBN13: 9781610974004
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"