indeterminate space, looking at the world from everywhere and anywhere. Rather with one foot planted in their own culture and the other in God’s future—internal difference—they have a vantage point from which to perceive and judge the self and the other not simply on their own terms but in the light of God’s new world—a world in which a great multitude “from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages” is gathered “before the throne and before the Lamb” (Revelation
