A Semiotic Christology

by Cyril Orji

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2021

Overview

This book details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology. In the light of the trend towards evolutionary worldview, the book goes beyond description and critically engages the sign system of C. S. Peirce, which it sees as a conceptual tool and method for a better understanding of some of the basic issues in Christology.

Key Features

• Details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology.
• Develops a distinctive and detailed Christology.
• Breaks new ground towards explication of christological controversies.

Praise for the Print Edition

Drawing on the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce and working in the tradition of such luminaries as Bernard Lonergan and Donald L. Gelpi, Cyril Orji develops a distinctive and detailed Christology. By turns subtle and insightful, he avoids the twin pitfalls of Kantian transcendentalism and faculty psychology in ways the interested reader is sure to find rich and rewarding.

—Richard Kenneth Atkins, Boston College

A thoroughly researched, down-to-earth explication of ordinarily difficult theological concepts; without a doubt, Orji’s seminal approach breaks new ground towards explication of christological controversies and advances a semiotic approach to theology. A Semiotic Christology weaves together contemporary theological thoughts on the divine relations and establishes theology as a science in a whole new way, a must-read for scholars and students.

—Joseph Ogbonnaya, author of African Perspectives on Culture and World Christianity

Professor Orji’s conviction is that traditional philosophical categories are inadequate to the task of formulating a Christology for the twenty-first century. Instead, in a wide-ranging study, he offers a Christology based on the semiotics (theory of signs) of C. S. Peirce. Central to his argument is the singularity of the resurrection as a semiotic event. Orji’s contribution to transposing Christian theology into a semiotic key is most welcome.

—A. J. N. Robinson, University of Exeter

Product Details

• Title: A Semiotic Christology
• Author: Cyril Orji
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 268
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781725269170, 1725269171
• Resource ID: LLS:SMTCCHRSTLGY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T15:15:47Z

About Cyril Orji

Cyril Orji is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Core Integrated Study at the University of Dayton. He is the author of The Catholic University and the Search for Truth (2013) and Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa: An Analysis of Bias and Conversion Based on the Works of Bernard Lonergan (2008).