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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