Reading the Bible Latinamente

Latino/a Interpretation for the Life of the Church

Ruth Padilla DeBorst (Author), M. Daniel Carroll R. (Author), Miguel G. Echevarría (Author) Release Date: 10/29/24

Overview

The Bible is important to Latino/a Christians living in America, playing a central role in their lives and churches. These believers have unique experiences and backgrounds that influence the way they read, understand, and apply Scripture. Reading the Bible Latinamente encourages these readers to recognize and embrace their social location and lived realities in reading Scripture. Three prominent evangelical Latino/a scholars and ministry practitioners combine their diverse experiences and expertise in biblical studies, theology, and missiology to provide an accessible resource that speaks to the lives of everyday people.

The authors discuss biblical interpretation from the Latino/a diaspora and provide examples from both New and Old Testament texts. Topics include reading in community and wrestling with identity and mission in the diaspora. Latino/a students and lay readers will be encouraged in their own reading of the Scripture and in the contributions they make to the North American and global church, while believers from other backgrounds will benefit from the perspectives and contributions of their Latino/a brothers and sisters.

1. Who Are We and from Where Do We Read? Latino/a Identity and Location
2. Reading Latinamente: How Do We Read the Bible?
3. Strangers in a Strange Land: Old Testament I
4. A Latino/a Blessing: Old Testament II
5. Equal Participants in the Community of God: New Testament I
6. Diaspora Faith Communities: New Testament II
Conclusion
Indexes

Authors

Ruth Padilla DeBorst

Ruth Padilla DeBorst (PhD, Boston University) is the Richard C. Oudersluys Associate Professor of World Christianity at Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan.

M. Daniel Carroll R.

M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas) (PhD, University of Sheffield) is Scripture Press Ministries Professor of Biblical Studies and Pedagogy at Wheaton College and Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois. He previously taught for many years at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and then at Denver Seminary, where he founded IDEAL, a Spanish language training program. Carroll is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Bible and Borders: Hearing God's Word on Immigration, Wrestling with the Violence of God: Soundings in the Old Testament, and a major commentary on the book of Amos.

Miguel G. Echevarría