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"When You Stop Pretending That You Know"
[Article]
D. Marcel DeCoste
Leiden
Brill
Increasingly addressing the religious dimension of Cormac McCarthy's work, critics have frequently rooted it in a Gnosticism which holds, first, that the world is a place of evil and suffering and, second, that salvation is attained through knowledge made available only to the elect. The Stonemason, however, seems intent on refuting just such a thesis. Focusing on Ben and his grandfather Papaw, a centenarian stonemason, the play presents Ben as seeking, through mastery of the mason's secrets, to become custodian to knowledge that will unlock the mysteries not just of a trade but of the cosmos. Yet this Gnostic quest fosters in him a moral negligence that leads to the deaths of two family members. Indeed, Ben's tragedy stems precisely from his Gnostic prizing of secret lore and indifference to the Christian lessons Papaw himself most values-lessons not in god-like knowledge but in the practice of faith, humility, and love. Increasingly addressing the religious dimension of Cormac McCarthy's work, critics have frequently rooted it in a Gnosticism which holds, first, that the world is a place of evil and suffering and, second, that salvation is attained through knowledge made available only to the elect. The Stonemason, however, seems intent on refuting just such a thesis. Focusing on Ben and his grandfather Papaw, a centenarian stonemason, the play presents Ben as seeking, through mastery of the mason's secrets, to become custodian to knowledge that will unlock the mysteries not just of a trade but of the cosmos. Yet this Gnostic quest fosters in him a moral negligence that leads to the deaths of two family members. Indeed, Ben's tragedy stems precisely from his Gnostic prizing of secret lore and indifference to the Christian lessons Papaw himself most values-lessons not in god-like knowledge but in the practice of faith, humility, and love.
2021
125-146
Religion and the Arts
25/1-2
1568-5292
Art History
Christianity
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
Cormac McCarthy
ethics
General
Gnosticism
History
Religious Studies
D. Marcel DeCoste
10.1163/15685292-02501004
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