Eleazar S. Fernandez - Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World

edited by ELEAZAR S. FERNANDEZ

Peter T. Cha is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he has taught since 1997 . Trained at the University of Chicago (BA in sociology), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv and ThM) and Northwestern University (PhD in Social Ethics and Sociology of Religion), Dr. Cha has also served as a member of the CORE (Committee of Race and Ethnicity) of ATS and participated in the Lexington Seminars Academic Leadership Mentoring Project. His recent writings include chapters in This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith (Oxford University Press, 2006 ), Growing Healthy Asian American Churches (InterVarsity, 2006 ), and Revitalizing Practice: Collaborative Models for Theological Faculties (Peter Lang, 2008 ).

Elizabeth Conde-Frazier is Vice President of Education and Dean of Esperanza College of Eastern University. Previously, she was professor of religious education at the Claremont School of Theology and taught Hispanic/Latino/a theology at the Latin American Bible Institute, in California. She is author of Hispanic Bible Institutes: A Community of Theological Construction (Scranton University Press, 2004 ), A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation (co-authored) (Baker Academic, ), and Listen to the Children: Conversations with Immigrant Families (bilingual) (Judson, 2011 ). She has also written on the subjects of participatory action research, Latina feminist theology, the spirituality of the scholar, and issues of justice as they relate to education.

Eleazar S. Fernandez is Professor of Constructive Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minnesota. His published works include Burning Center, Porous Borders: The Church in a Globalized World (Wipf and Stock, 2011 ), New Overtures: Asian North American Theology in the 21st Century (edited, Sopher, 2012 ), Reimagining the Human: Theological Anthropology in Response to Systemic Evils (Chalice, 2004 ), Realizing the America of our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans (co-edited with Fumitaka Matsuoka, Chalice, 2003 ), A Dream Unfinished: Voices from the Margins (co-edited with Fernando Segovia, Orbis, 2000 ), and Toward a Theology of Struggle (Orbis, 1994 ). He has taught in countries outside the U.S., including Myanmar, Cameroon, and the Philippines (Union Theological Seminary). As of June 2013 , he is President of Union Theological Seminary, Philippines.

Mary Hinton is the Vice President for Planning and Assessment at Mount Saint Mary College, in Newburgh, New York. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Religious Education Association and the Association of General and Liberal Studies, and is the former president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion. She actively publishes her research on the historic black church and frequently provides national presentations about assessment, strategic planning, and diversity. Dr. Hinton has a BA in psychology from Williams College, an MA in psychology from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in religion and religious education from Fordham University.

Willie James Jennings is Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Jennings earned his PhD from Duke University. He teaches in the areas of systematic theology and black church and cultural studies. The author of numerous articles, his research interests include these areas as well as liberation theologies, cultural identities, and anthropology. An ordained Baptist minister, Dr. Jennings has served as interim pastor of several North Carolina churches and continues to be an active teaching and preaching minister in the local church. He is the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Yale University Press, 2010 ).

Boyung Lee , a native of Korea, is Associate Professor of Educational Ministries at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. The breadth of her educational preparation extends from Korea to the United States. Among her published works are From A Margin within the Margin: Rethinking the Dynamics of Christianity and Culture From A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective (in Journal of Theologies and Cultures of Asia ); Realities, Visions, and Promises of a Multicultural Future (co-authored with Mary Elizabeth Moore, et al., in Religious Education); Caring-self and Womens Self-esteem: A Feminists Reflection on Pastoral Care and Religious Education of Korean-American Women (in Pastoral Psychology), and Teaching Justice and Living Peace: Body, Sexuality and Religious Education in Asian American Communities (in Religious Education). She is the author of Restoring Community in the Mainline: A Pedagogical Guide to Communal Faith and Ministry (Westminster John Knox, forthcoming).

David Maldonado Jr. is President Emeritus of Iliff School of Theology and Director of the Center for Latino/a Christianity and Religions at SMUs Perkins School of Theology. His books include Crossing Guadalupe Street (co-authored, University of New Mexico Press, 2001 ), Hispanic Christianity within Mainline Protestant Traditions: A Bibliography (Asociacin para la Educacin Teolgica Hispana, 1998 ), and Protestantes/Protestants: Hispanic Christianity within Mainline Traditions (Abingdon, 1999 ). He also has held numerous denominational, national, and statewide service positions, and received many awards and recognitions, including 1977 Educator of the Year by the Dallas Mexican Chamber of Commerce and a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Fellowship, 198083 .

Loida I. Martell-Otero is Professor of Constructive Theology at Palmer Theological Seminary/Eastern University, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. She is a licensed doctor in veterinary medicine as well as an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches/ USA. She is a bi-coastal Puerto Rican who taught in various institutions of higher learning and pastored in urban centers for fifteen years. She co-edited Teologa en Conjunto: A Collaborative Hispanic Protestant Theology (Westminister John Knox, 1997 ), and co-authored Latina Evanglicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins (Cascade, 2013 ). She has published various articles on evanglica soteriology, Christology, and vocation. Her recent research on Tano religious beliefs has focused on its links with theological anthropology/embodiment, spirituality, and eschatology.