Week 5 – Cobb Chapter 5
February 11, 2008
Coupland’s comment seems to characterize well most of the images of God outlined in this chpater:
I think the price we paid for our golden life was an inability to fully believe in love; instead we gained an irony that scorched everything it touched. And I wonder if this irony is the price we paid for the loss of God.
Indeed the stories of a God who “turned away,” committed sacrificial suicide, was proven mathematically valid and then hidden for fear of chaotic consequence, all seem to suggest both a glorification of irony and a resentment toward God. The sentiment seems to be: “God” as we know it has failed us.
In reflection, one wonders, as did CS Lewis so many decades ago, how exactly it happened that we placed “God in the dock” and ourselves became the judges and justifiers.
