Libros by Luis Rivera-Pagán
Citas de trabajos by Luis Rivera-Pagán
Lupa Protestante, 30 de enero de 2014.
Papers by Luis Rivera-Pagán
Karl Barth and Liberation Theology
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras., 2019
Someone, me kneeling: I tore my clothes And I filled my head with ashes. I cry for that homeland ... more Someone, me kneeling: I tore my clothes And I filled my head with ashes. I cry for that homeland that I have never had, The homeland that builds anguish in the desert. " Rosario Castellanos "Wailing Wall" From the sterile vigil (1950) [1] Challenges They are diverse and complex, the ethical and theological challenges confronting Latin American, Caribbean, Hispanic and American Christian communities in its unwavering
REFLEXUS - Revista Semestral de Teologia e Ciências das Religiões, 2017
In 1566, after several decades of intense and exhausting endeavors to influence and shape the pol... more In 1566, after several decades of intense and exhausting endeavors to influence and shape the policy of the Spanish state and church regarding the Americas, years of drafting countless historical texts, theological treatises, colonization projects, prophetic homilies, juridical complaints, political utopias, and apocalyptic visions, Bartolomé de Las Casas knows very well that the end is at hand: the end of his life and the end of his illusions of crafting a just and Christian empire in the New World. It is a moment of searching for the precise closure, the right culmination of a human existence that since 1502 had been intimately linked, as no other person of his time, to the drama of the conquest and Christianization of Latin America, a continent, as has been so aptly asserted, “born in blood and fire.
Decolonial Christianities, 2019
This chapter develops the following topics: (1) The linkages between the Iberian conquest and Chr... more This chapter develops the following topics: (1) The linkages between the Iberian conquest and Christianization of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the emergence of modernity, global empire, and capitalism. Latin America and the Caribbean became the cradle of modern expressions of Western imperial domination and missionary enterprises. It was an imperial process vindicated, but also contested, by theological arguments and scriptural hermeneutics, as attested by the writings of Francisco de Vitoria, Bartolome de Las Casas, Juan Gines de Sepulveda, Jose de Acosta, and others. (2) The ways in which contemporary biblical studies engage the voices of oppressed peoples and articulate decolonizing perspectives. Biblical Israel was a small nation subject to the ambitions of several powerful empires—Egypt, Syria, Assyria, Babylon, Macedonia, and Rome. Jesus’ crucifixion was a lethal expression of imperial repression in connivance with colonized hierarchies. (3) The emergence of contempora...
Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity, 2019
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity, 2020
This chapter deals with a classic anthropological study in Latin American religious history: the ... more This chapter deals with a classic anthropological study in Latin American religious history: the conversion, in the middle of the twentieth century, of a Puerto Rican sugarcane worker to Pentecostalism. The author expands that study to analyze the geometrical expansion of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in Latin America. It discusses issues like glossolalia, divine healing, charismatic worship, missionary expansion of the Pentecostal churches, and the consequences for a meaningful but scarcely studied cultural transformation of Latin America. Pentecostalism, in its diverse manifestations, is now a meaningful religious, social, and political movement in several nations of the Latin American continent, as the election of Jair Messias Bolsonaro to Brazil’s presidency has dramatically demonstrated.
Christianity and the Law of Migration, 2021
International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 2009
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Libros by Luis Rivera-Pagán
Citas de trabajos by Luis Rivera-Pagán
Papers by Luis Rivera-Pagán
By. Prof. Ulrike Bechmann; Archeological Shifts vis-à-vis Palestine in the Twentieth Century by Prof. Dieter Vieweger; God the Liberator: Theology, History, and Politics by Prof. Luis Rivera Pagan; The Invention of History: A German Perspective
by Prof. Ottmar Fuchs; Palestinian Theological Praxis in Context: An Analysis of the Approaches of Sabeel, Al-Liqa’, and Diyar by Dr. Samuel J. Kuruvilla; Hermeneutical Shifts vis-à-vis Palestine in the Twentieth Century (Romans 9-11) by Prof. Paul Tarazi; American Expansionism, Theologies, and the Israel/Palestine Question by Dr. Robert O. Smith; Towards a New Theological Understanding vis-à-vis Palestine in the 21st Century by Dr. Jamal Khader; Postcolonial Theologies: Promise and Challenge for the Middle East by Prof. Gabriel A. Salguero; Theological Developments in Europe vis-à-vis Palestine in the 20th Century:
Major Trends in Scandinavia by Dr. Göran Gunner; By Dr. The Conflict of Narratives from Memory to Prophecy by Dr. Rafiq Khoury