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Conclusion: Latino(a) Evangelical Tradition
Conclusion: An Exploration of Post-Colonial Themes in the Latino(a) Evangelical Community
Latinos(as), as the largest minority group in the United States and a growing minority within the Evangelical Church, will continue to exert tremendous influence on society at large and the Evangelical Church as a whole. The positive possibilities give us reason to have great hope. In his revisionist history of the United States, A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki explains that "America's dilemma has been our resistance to ourselves–our denial of our immensely varied selves" (Takaki, 427). The same could no doubt be said about the Evangelical Church. Perhaps Latino(a) Evangelical congregations, communities of polycentric identity who live at the nexus of multiple cultures, can help the Evangelical Church in America to question the essentialist notions of race, culture, and politics that have divided us. And just maybe, if we will look to the past and envision the future with new eyes, we can begin to see ourselves in a "different mirror" (Takaki, 426)–a mirror that reflects the magnificent plurality of the one nation in which we live, the one Church to which we belong, and our one shared humanity created in the image of God.
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Latinos(as), as the largest minority group in the United States and a growing minority within the Evangelical Church, will continue to exert tremendous influence on society at large and the Evangelical Church as a whole. The positive possibilities give us reason to have great hope. In his revisionist history of the United States, A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki explains that "America's dilemma has been our resistance to ourselves–our denial of our immensely varied selves" (Takaki, 427). The same could no doubt be said about the Evangelical Church. Perhaps Latino(a) Evangelical congregations, communities of polycentric identity who live at the nexus of multiple cultures, can help the Evangelical Church in America to question the essentialist notions of race, culture, and politics that have divided us. And just maybe, if we will look to the past and envision the future with new eyes, we can begin to see ourselves in a "different mirror" (Takaki, 426)–a mirror that reflects the magnificent plurality of the one nation in which we live, the one Church to which we belong, and our one shared humanity created in the image of God.
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