Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface to the problem: Christ, culture and communication -- Introduction to the solution: (re)signing truth -- Signs of Christ and culture. Signs of the times; on the edge of cultural change -- Signs of God's word: following Jesus -- How signs work. Identifying signs: from rhetoric to semiotic -- Under signs: structuralism -- Controlling signs: ideology and cultural studies -- Changing signs of faith. Signs of deconstruction: maintaining the house of faith -- A place for the coin: Charles Sanders Peirce -- Placing the coin on edge: trinitarian signs -- Communication in a pluralistic world. Si(g)ns of communication: (in)tolerance versus the gift -- Antiseptic Bakhtin: healing signs of the body -- Communication on the edge: a conclusion.

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. --from publisher description.