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About the Author
Justo L. Gonzalez, a United Methodist minister born in Cuba, is a retired member of the Río Grande Conference of the United Methodist Church. After his basic college and seminary education in Cuba, he came to study at Yale University, where he obtained three degrees: S.T.M. (1958), M.A. (1960), Ph.D. (1961). In 1961 he joined the faculty of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico, teaching historical theology, and in 1969 he moved to Atlanta, where he now resides, in order to teach at Candler School of Theology (Emory University). Since 1977 he has been engaged in two main occupations: writing and promoting the theological education of Latinas and Latinos.
Along the line of the first of these interests, he has published over 80 books, as well as hundreds of articles, both at the academic and at the popular level. Several of his books are used as textbooks in seminaries and colleges and are translated into Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, German, Japanese, and Russian. His interest in promoting the theological education of Latinas and Latinos led to the founding of the Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana and of the Hispanic Summer Program, a program in theological education sponsored by 38 seminaries and universities. He was also the first Executive Director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative, a program based at Princeton Theological Seminary and funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts whose purpose is to support Latinos and Latinas pursuing advanced degrees in theology.
Both of these interests are combined in many of his publications, including the journal Apuntes, which he edited for twenty years, and the publication of a 14-volume Spanish translation of the works of Wesley, which he also edited.
