Finally, how does the postmodern (Age of Semiotics) An Archaeology of the Fall change the picture?
Doctrines of Reason and Resistance become examples for a semiotic-oriented Doctrine of Original Sin based on the recognition that cryptotheological doctrines are symbolic orders. These symbolic orders exclude other potential symbolic orders. Social constructions always have unintended consequences (that is, consequences that cannot be symbolized by the formulating order).
“The society that we live in” changes to “the social constructions that we live in”.
“The various imaginings that support cryptotheological symbolic orders (the various anthropologies of “what went wrong?”)” change to” an artistic (imaginative) parallel between the Biblical stories in Genesis 2.4 – 11 and the adoption of speech-alone talk”.
Furthermore, the structure of modern imaginative anthropologies most likely harken to the – originating, but now impossible to return to – world of hand-speech talk.
Why? The entire frame of
Cryptotheologies(“social construction”(nature of humans))
is a symptom of the change of Lebenswelt that occurred when humans adopted speech-alone talk, which has vastly different semiotic qualities than hand-speech talk. And, inexplicably but importantly, the change from one way of talking to the other allows us to re-mythologize the Stories of Adam and Eve.