Week 5--Cobb Chapter 5: Images of God

Ferrucci says we have virtually stopped creating and are now feeding on the past, which confirms “God putting out the lights.” God is removing himself from the scene of his creation fiasco. Maybe we feel we can no longer create because God can no longer create. There is a sort of divine apathy with God that’s now rubbed off on us. I think this sentiment is reflected in recent music and films. There is a kind of majestic cast to the existential hell of the late modern world. A trace of it can be found in the title of the Eve 6 song, “Beautiful Oblivion.” There is a sort of ironic beauty to it all. This suggests a sober awareness of both the decadence and hopelessness (hell) as well as God being an absent witness to it all (majesty). In any case, our awareness of God is all the more profound against the backdrop of such chaos and pain. This is kind of like the notion of God being present in his absence, similar to certain types of Buddhism.