Week 8 - Cobb, Ch. 8 (Salvation)

Redemptive violence is key salvation narrative in our culture. Seeking ecstatic experiences can become religion of self-absorption. Music offers a salvific quality of imagining "new ways of being." Love songs reach beyond human relationships to God. Chocolat shows salvation through consumerism and self-fulfillment. Penance rejected by Reformers but hard-work ethic has taken its place. Self-therapy and help offered as salvific in our culture. AA listed as an ideal model for using therapy that does not make the individual's cravings its idol - just the opposite is true.