Carlos F. Cardoza Orlandi

Engaging Coloniality

History & Biography

“Bringing together senior and promising young scholars, Barreto and Lamport provide readers with an exciting intellectual journey through the developments, expressions, challenges, entanglements, and promises of Christianities in Latin America and the Caribbean. This volume is a valuable source for integrating decolonial theory with religious studies, providing rich resources for further exploration. I will certainly use it for my undergraduate and graduate courses. Engaging Coloniality is an urgent and necessary contribution that challenges the frequent intellectual indifference towards Latin America and Caribbean experience in World Christianity studies in the USA.”

Las prácticas de la predicación cristiana

Church Leadership & Ministry

“«Alcántara pone en nuestras manos un ejemplar práctico y creativo para la formación homilética de la comunidad pastoral y de laicos y laicas con interés en el arte de la buena comunicación desde y en el púlpito. Integrando ejemplos de su propia experiencia homilética junto a su creatividad en la comunicación pública y contextual, Alcántara ofrece un mapa crítico y formativo para predicar con claridad, contextualidad, precisión y convicción. Implícitamente ofrece una crítica a la predicación y estilos de comunicación teológica trivial, manipuladora y teológicamente insostenible. Este libro es un aporte a la pastoral latinoamericana, arraigado en la convicción de que la predicación es indispensable para el discipulado cristiano. Usando principios sencillos —tales como claridad de comunicación y contextualidad— Alcántara desafía a la comunidad ministerial a comunicar el evangelio y formar a la comunidad para el servicio del Reino por medio de la buena predicación. Es un excelente trabajo en teología práctica y homilética, llenando un vacío en la literatura actual, sobre todo en español.»”

Learning Theology

Theology

“In Learning Theology Dr. Amos Yong offers a basic framework to understand the resources, themes, and vocations in Christian theology. With accessible language and clarity of ideas, the learning reader discovers the breath and scope of a discipline inspired and grounded by the Spirit where faith, critical reflection, action, and community interplay to revive the long-standing ministry of theological reflection and action. One of the critical contributions of Yong is a recovery of action and spirituality in theological vocations, a gift constantly extended by the Christian communities and their theologians in the global south.”

Power and Partnership

Evangelism & Missions

“With historical clarity, political insight, and missiological acuteness, Barnes traces the complex dynamics of cross-cultural partnerships. He provides . . . a deep, sophisticated, and accessible analysis of the achievements, struggles, and unfinished agenda for what will continue to be, at all levels of the Christian church, the most common experience of North-to-South relationships. Barnes's work contributes to the reshaping of global denominational policy and congregational short-term mission practices.”

The Candleberry Tales

Fiction

“Lehman, a friend and colleague, has always been a thoughtful lay theologian. In The Candleberry Tales, he provides us with thoughtful, hilarious, and at times frustrating as well as challenging stories of Christian daily-life interactions. Humanizing and humorizing the situations of Christian leaders and congregations, Lehman dares the readers to think about God, sources of authority, congregational structures and community, institutional despair and hope, and the mystery of God in stories. English is not my native language, but I was able to follow the stories—their humor and challenges—and enjoy a time of theological reflection in an inter-cultural mode of thinking. I will certainly include some of these stories in my undergraduate classes as examples of story-telling theological reflections taking our emotions from laughter to intrigue and curiosity.”