Week 2--Cobb Chapter 2 (Hyperreality and Simulacrum)

Reading about hyperreality and simulacrum was illuminating. Is the Church troubled by the never-ending cycle of images that has no reference? I can anticipate where this is going and its relevance for Christian missions and cultural studies. The postmodern hunger for a fabrication that’s better than the real essence upon which the fabrication is based (if there even is an essence???) begs the question: is the Church offering a spirituality that has an actual referent, or is it just offering a package of symbols and signs through which people and communities can better cope with the “incomprehensibility” that’s out there (63)? I think if we are to claim that there actually is a real referent behind the signs of our religion, we better have a good explanation in this age of skepticism and a proclivity for “fabrications.”