"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:19
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Power Points from November 3, 2009
Hello all, here are the power points from yesterday's class.
“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.” Flannery O’Connor, “Novelist and Believer”
This whole PowerPoint presentation is a critical conversation to have. Last night I visited a friend and saw a few scenes from a network vampire series. It kind of shocked me morally, but more it surprised me theologically and instructed me culturally. One couple ingested vampire blood in a blatantly eucharistic ritual invoking Gaia, which led to an hallucinogenic, euphoristic sexual experience. And the appalling, frightening thing is it didn't "feel" heretical or blasphemous! There was something (intended to be) darkly beautiful about it all.
Is this what we have come to? Flannery saw it clearly.
Have we gone beyond beauty that is merely "broken"? In light of what I saw last night, broken feels like a weak term. Shattered is more forceful.
“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.”
ReplyDeleteFlannery O’Connor, “Novelist and Believer”
This whole PowerPoint presentation is a critical conversation to have. Last night I visited a friend and saw a few scenes from a network vampire series. It kind of shocked me morally, but more it surprised me theologically and instructed me culturally. One couple ingested vampire blood in a blatantly eucharistic ritual invoking Gaia, which led to an hallucinogenic, euphoristic sexual experience. And the appalling, frightening thing is it didn't "feel" heretical or blasphemous! There was something (intended to be) darkly beautiful about it all.
Is this what we have come to? Flannery saw it clearly.
Have we gone beyond beauty that is merely "broken"? In light of what I saw last night, broken feels like a weak term. Shattered is more forceful.