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Justo L. González: Missionary of Hispanic Theology in the United States

by Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell , Zaida Maldonado Pérez
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781481324014
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Baylor University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Baylor University Press
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  • Pages: 301
  • Original Price: USD 44.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 717 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Religious

Two of celebrated Hispanic theologian Justo L. Gonz�lez's major works, The Story of Christianity and A History of Christian Thought, continue to be used as primary textbooks in undergraduate and seminary programs throughout the United States. But few of his literary students and admirers know the details of his biography, in particular the significance of his contribution to the emergence of Hispanic theology in the United States during the past five decades.

In this biography, Angel Santiago-Vendrell gives fresh attention to Gonz�lez's role in a rapidly changing theological landscape. Born in Cuba in 1937 and profoundly shaped by the "revolutionary decade" of the 1950s, Gonz�lez studied theology at Yale, Basel, and Strasbourg, where he encountered George Lindbeck, Karl Barth, and Yves Congar. He became good friends with Martin Luther King, Jr., during the 1960s while teaching at the Evangelical Seminary in Puerto Rico. He later went on to serve at Candler School of Theology and then to take various denominational positions in the United Methodist Church. His work for the Fund for Theological Education led to the creation of the Hispanic Theological Initiative in 1998. Although Gonz�lez is best known as a prolific author, Santiago-Vendrell argues that his most enduring contribution to Western Christianity is as a pioneer in Hispanic theology.

Gonz�lez's story reveals new strategies for the advancement of Hispanic people, the largest ethnic/racial group in the United States but with the lowest proportion of educated leaders, pastors, and professors. His example of perseverance in Christian vocation calls Hispanic believers to remember and reignite their witness. Santiago-Vendrell presents Gonz�lez's life and work as embodying a missional passion rooted in the gospel of incarnation, of God's work in history. This incarnational theology is the center of an unwavering commitment in Gonz�lez's life to equip and unite Christians in their proclamation of the faith. This painstaking engagement with and for the church--Hispanic and otherwise--continues to bear much fruit.

Angel Santiago-Vendrell was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. He holds a BA in Theological Studies from Lee University (Cleveland, TN), a MDiv from Pentecostal Theological Seminary (Cleveland, TN), a ThM in Mission and History of Religions from Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ) and a ThD in History of World Christianity from Boston University (Boston, MA). He currently is Associate Professor of World Christianity at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. His research focuses on the intersection of theology, history, religion, race, and social transformation in the Global South, especially Latin America and Latinx communities in the United States.

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