Justo González

Dr. Justo Luis González, retired professor of historical theology and leading voice in the field of Hispanic theology, grew up in Havana as a Methodist. He attended United Seminary in Cuba, where he earned a a Bachelor of Sacred Theology, and was the youngest person to be awarded a PhD in historical theology at Yale University. He went on to join the faculty at the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico and later at the Candler School of Theology at Emory, where he was virtually the only Latino scholar in a U.S. Protestant seminary at the time. Over a span of 50 years as a church historian, Dr. González has focused on developing programs for the theological education of Hispanics and has received four honorary doctorates. He helped found three pivotal organizations—the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI), the Hispanic Summer Program, and Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH). In 2011, the AETH inaugurated the Justo and Catherine González Resource Center, along with a lecture series of the same name, in honor of the contributions he and his wife Catherine Gunsalus González have made to the AETH and to the field of theology. He is also the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal from the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and the Ecumenism Award from Washington Theological Consortium. Dr. González is the main narrator for the video lessons of the Christian Believer study course from Cokesbury publishing. He is the author of numerous books, some of which are commonly used as college and seminary textbooks, including A History of Christian Thought (three volumes), The Story of Christianity (two volumes), Santa Biblia: The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes, The Story Luke Tells, Essential Theological Terms, and Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective.