This scene impressed us all with its omenic signification, so that we could scarcely wonder that Isolita in her great sorrow received it as a presage of vehicular translation, to be treasured as a token of animus visitations from her departed unity in the flesh.

It is the lived condition of crossing borders and existing in the realm of both/and together that allows for the conscious movement into the creative terrain of third space.

Applying Bakhtin's concept to this study, the second-generation ethnic church can be viewed as a heteroglot in which discourse drawn from the ethnic group, the American evangelical subculture, and the broader American society intersect in a dialogical relationship.

Although the Dominicans continuously disapproved of immaculism, the conflict became considerably fiercer in the aftermath of the Council of Basel (1431–1449), when the Immaculate Conception was elevated to a dogma.