Galilean Journey : The Mexican-American Promise

by Elizondo, Virgilio P.

• ISBN13: 9781570753107
• ISBN10: 1570753105
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

In this work, which marked the arrival of a new era of Hispanic/Latino theology in the United States, Virgilio Elizondo described the "Galilee principle": "What human beings reject, God chooses as his very own." This principle is well understood by Mexican-Americans, for whom mestizaje - the mingling of ethnicity, race, and culture - is a distinctive feature of their identity. In the person of Jesus, whose marginalized Galilean identity also marked him as a mestizo, the Mexican-American struggle for identity and new life becomes luminous.
Galilean Journey includes a new autobiographical introduction, as well as a concluding chapter describing the subsequent development of Hispanic/Latino theology in the United States.

Author Biography

Virgilio P. Elizondo is director of Archdiocesan Television Ministry for San Antonio.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Preface to the 2000 Edition: How Did It Come to Be?	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Mexican-American Experience	p. 5
Mestizaje	p. 7
1492: Year of Historic Beginnings	p. 7
First Mestizaje: The Spanish-Catholic Conquest of Mexico	p. 9
Mother of the New Race	p. 11
Second Mestizaje: The Nordic-Protestant Conquest of Mexico	p. 13
The Dynamics of Mestizaje	p. 16
From Cultural Birth to Maturity	p. 19
The Mexican-American People	p. 19
Identity	p. 20
Power Struggles: The Logic of Oppression and Liberation	p. 23
Maturity	p. 27
Living Faith: Resistance and Survival	p. 32
Symbols of Ultimate Identity and Belonging	p. 32
Symbols of Struggle, Suffering, and Death	p. 41
Symbols of New Creation	p. 43
The Gospel Matrix	p. 47
The Galilee Experience	p. 49
Galilee: Symbol of Multiple Rejection	p. 50
The Kingdom of the Father: Symbol of Universal Acceptance, Welcome, and Love	p. 53
The Galilean Crisis: Symbol of the Rupture That Inaugurates Liberation	p. 65
Fulfillment in Jerusalem	p. 67
Jerusalem: Symbol of Established Power	p. 68
The Ultimate Struggle: Spirit versus Establishment	p. 70
The Sundered Temple Veil: Symbol of the End of all Particularisms	p. 78
Beyond All Borders	p. 79
The New Existence	p. 79
The Spirit of the New Creation	p. 82
The New Universalism	p. 84
From Margination to New Creation	p. 89
The Galilee Principle	p. 91
The Way of Jesus	p. 91
The Church's Witness of Poverty	p. 92
From Rejection to Election	p. 94
Galilean Identity Today	p. 100
The Jerusalem Principle	p. 103
Our Way to Jerusalem	p. 104
The Church: Beginning of the New Mestizo Creation	p. 105
Mestizaje as Prophetic Mission	p. 107
The Resurrection Principle	p. 115
The Paradox of Death Unto Life	p. 115
The Dry Bones Come to Life (Ezekiel 37)	p. 117
Joy that Transcends Divisions	p. 119
Epilogue: Twenty Years Later: The Global Contribution of Particularity	p. 126
Notes	p. 134
Bibliography	p. 137
Scripture Index	p. 145
General Index	p. 147
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