THE BLACK NAZARENE, A PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ETHOS – TAASA Review June 2015
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This article was originally found in the June 2015 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 16).
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Tony Twigg I n the Philippines, Christian faith is palpable.
Its proffered salvation laces people’s lives together with a benign and guiding presence that elsewhere would be understood as a metaphor.
The power of Christianity as an instrument of colonisation lay in its translation from Spanish Catholicism into the Filipino vernacular...