Week 7 – Cobb Chapter 7
February 25, 2008
It’s interesting that both the Gothic and covenant/jeremiad approaches to sin seem to suggest a humanity that has not merely fallen, but ultimately prefers fallenness and darkness (yet for different reasons). For the Gothic:
…dark as it is, offers epistemological certainty; it allows us to believe that we’ve found the truth.
And for the jeremiad, darkness is preferred over the “almost Eden” that seems to fall short. Thus, we’d rather “hope again in wretched darkness” than live in a paradise that is not quite satisfying (again “hyperreality”: we’d rather imagine paradise than live in a good world that falls somehow short of perfection).
