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faith that spoke of the mestizo experience — the mixture of Spanish and Indian blood common to people born of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Why, he pondered, was there such emphasis in the Gospels on Jesus' origins in Galilee, a land little mentioned in the Old Testament? It came to him that Jesus was essentially a mestizo, raised in Nazareth, outside the mainstream of Israelite life. "People are hurt when they are not welcome. To me, that is the sin of the world," Elizondo says. "Jesus became the rejected other, and only out of that position was he able to reject rejection."
Elizondo's mestizaje theology has found resonance beyond the Mexican-American community. "Every generation tends to build an image of Jesus in response to its deepest quest," he says. "When they are writing about Jesus, they are really writing about themselves." |
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