The Rev. Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez

Caribbean Lutherans

History & Biography

“It is very comfortable to talk about voiceless people and cultures: but providentially, Rodríguez is not deaf. Only a sympathetic historian, systematician, and pastor such as he could have done justice to our--in this order--Taino, Jamaican, Virgin Islands, and Scandinavian Lutheran and Moravian DNA. This comprehensive essay decolonizes North Atlantic white supremacy. By doing that, José David makes the Greater Caribbean political-religious narratives part of church history, and no longer a mere footnote of "missions."”