Journal of Latin American Theology, Volume 19, Number 2

Lindy Scott

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385241675
• Print ISBN:
  9798385241668

This issue of the Journal of Latin American Theology (JLAT) features three papers from the FTL's "Ecology, Theology, and Mission" conference from November 2023 and three from RIESC's conference that same month, "Protestant Involvement in the Public Sphere Around the Globe: A Latin American Perspective Regarding Higher Education." Daniel Beros discusses climate change in dialogue with the lyrics of the iconic Latin American song "Todo cambia." Werner Fuchs reframes creation care as driven by the redemption brought by Christ and deconstructs commonly held Christian notions about "subduing the earth," among other matters. Pablo Ferrer explores what the theme of the "new" heavens and earth does and does not mean in the book of Revelation. Nicolas Panotto seeks to help the church reimagine its place in a plural, democratic society and to help institutions of Christian higher education equip the church to develop political practices based on the ethics of the kingdom of God. Rudolf von Sinner points out the contradictions between evangelico support for Bolsonaro in Brazil and evangelico doctrines and practices, and he offers a corrective in the form of an "evangelico sense of shame." Magali Cunha surveys an array of counterhegemonic Protestant groups in order to disprove the assumption that all Brazilian evangelicals believe, act, and vote in alignment with conservative fundamentalisms and extreme-right political policies. The reviews and poetry in this issue address related realities, especially the element of hope that rings throughout the pieces included herein.

Table of contents

• Letter from the Editors
• “Cambia, Todo Cambia”: Christian Faith and Climate Change
• The Centrality of the Cross for Socioenvironmental Justice
• The End of the World and New Creation: Approaches to and from John’s Revelation
• Protestantism, Public Influence, and Theological Education: Perspectives from the Political Ethics of the Kingdom of God
• Christian Higher Education and an Evangélico Sense of Shame: A Case Study from Brazilian Politics
• Protestant Presence in the Public Sphere: A Case Study of Brazil
• Book Review - Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South by Oscar García-Johnson
• Book Review – From Dissertation to Christian Book by Ian Darke
• Book Review – La Mesa Campesina: A Congregational Resource for Ministry with Migrant and Agricultural Farmworkers by Thelma Herrera Flores
• Film Review – Ujirei (Regeneration) by Mateo Sobode Chiqueno
• Theopoetry – “¿A quién iremos? / Who Will We Go To?”
• Theopoetry – “Aquel que está velando por mí / The One who Watches over Me”