Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Paternity Test

"Who's your daddy?"

This is more than the sincere question of the unwed and adulterous mothers of adolescent Afro-American and rapidly engendered Hispanic children. It's voluminously superior to the adjacent taunts of NBA forwards who have just dunked all in and around the faces of under-matched opponents. This and this alone, is a question for the aeons. It is through the recognition of the τυπος set forth in the eternity of filiation that the divine Son prior to his tabernaclation has pointed us toward a more excellent and exceedingly abundant answer of paternity and paternal fidelity. The μυστηριον of the faith is not the humiliation of the God-Messiah, but rather the manner in which the Triune אלהים subsists as μητηρ, πατηρ, & τεκνον (as opposed to hυιος). It is the ever-expanding família de dios that we all long to inhabit through the riches of the generously adoptive prescriptions of the mother/father/child team. And once we've come upon the becoming of Gott/Göttin then we will realize as the inerrant Carlos Barth said, that:

Yes, our Childship is occurrence, and as such it is the answer to that insoluble riddle of our existence which religion finally propounds. [...] Dissolved also is that embarrassment which everything finite imposes on infinity. Dissolved also is that untrustworthy complacency which clings to bourgeois affirmations and that precarious vagabondage which is the product of the poisons of human negation. [...] The Spirit of Childship, this new person who I am not, is my unobservable, existential EGO. (Der Römerbrief, 296-97. Language altered to eliminate Barth's obvious hatred of women)

It is the alterations made by the tailor of the universe that allow us to cry out אבא (!) and mean it with every insistence that is based upon the fibrous being of our analogously bran muffin-like spiritual purpose for existence.

2 comments:

Esteban Vázquez said...

You are a genius. Please be my paidagogos!

Jürgen Hauerwas said...

esteban,

I cannot take credit for the genius of my posts, for they are merely divine utterances mediated through the interconnectivity of world-wide information webbing. As Messiah Yeshua said: "a disciple is not above his teacher..." so I will fulfill your request while letting you know that as my pupil you will never be above (or greater) than I.