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Galilean Journey
The Mexican-American Promise
Revised and Expanded Edition
Virgilio Elizondo
“A shining vision of the contribution Mexican-Americans can make to American culture and American life and American religion as they struggle for acceptance and justice and offer, inreturn, festival and joy.”
—Andrew M. Greeley |
April
ISBN 1-57075-310-5
176pp. Index 6 x 9-1/4
Paper $17.00 |
The groundbreaking work in Hispanic theology, relates the story of the Galilean Jesus to the story of a new mestizo people.
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.
- Includes a new autobiographical introduction, as well as a concluding chapter describing the subsequent development of Hispanic/Latino theology in the United States.
| Virgilio Elizondo, a native of San Antonio and former rector of San Fernando Cathedral, is director of Archdiocesan Television Ministry for San Antonio. He is the author of Way of the Cross; Guadalupe; and co-author (with Timothy Matorina) of San Fernando Cathedral: Soul of the City. |
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Also by Virgilio P. Elizondo
Guadalupe
Mother of the New Creation
ISBN 1-57075-110-2
paper $14.00 |
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