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Betekenislagen van het kerkgebouw: een benadering vanuit de recente tensieve semiotiek

Authors

  • Gerard Lukken

Abstract

Church buildings can be observed in a multiform manner. This article aims at the description of its intrinsic layers of meaning with the help of recent French tensive semiotics which is an important supplement to classic structural semiotics. First an introduction of some technical semiotic terms is given; then follows a short exploration of the negative meaning layer of the church building as a touristic space, and next its museal dimension is explored. The basic-sacral dimension of the church building and its various gradations in the different periods is examined exhaustively. Subsequently the religious Christian dimension and its relation with the basic-sacral dimension is discussed. Finally the article draws attention to the ritual-liturgical dimension, to the dimension of metonymic relation with the past and to the diaconal dimension.

Author Biography

Gerard Lukken

Prof.em. dr Gerard Lukken (1933) studeerde aan het Groot Seminarie te Haaren, Noord-Brabant (1951-1957), de Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome en het Institut Supérieur de Liturgie in Parijs (1959-1964). Hij was pastor en godsdienstleraar (1957-1959), hoogleraar Liturgie en sacramententheologie aan het Groot Seminarie in Haaren (1964-1967) en aan de Theologische Faculteit te Tilburg (vanaf 1967), en directeur van het Liturgisch Instituut aan dezelfde faculteit (vanaf 1992) tot zijn emeritaat in 1994.

Published

2008-12-31

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