Week 8-Response to Aaron's Blog:

I was pleased to read that he noted the part of the African experience of slavery and how that manifested in spirituals then in gospel music and hymns. I think we have the natural tendency to think of salvation as a Western Culture phenomenon when in reality salvation has been seen through the lens of years and years of cultural practices, musicians, and certainly art. Salvation as Cobb describes is therapeutic to the human soul. It is something we all long to have and we even desire it for other people, don't we? Further, we even see salvation through the lens of redemptive violence as Aaron notes as well. Movies and music both paint this picture for all to see redemptive violence bring salvation.