Oscar García-Johnson

Rev. Dr. Oscar García-Johnson is Associate Professor of Theology and Latinx Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he is also Assistant Provost for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community (Centro Latino). He holds a BA from University of La Verne, and MA and PhD degrees from the Fuller Theological Seminary. Formerly, he served as a regional minister with the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles for 11 years and planted four new churches in Southern California. An activist scholar, his research methodology interlaces de/postcolonial studies, indigenous theologies, and US Latino/Latin American studies into a critical hermeneutic he calls “Transoccidentalism”. His writings include Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South (IVP Academic, 2019); Conversaciones Teológicas del Sur Global Americano (coedited, Puertas Abiertas/Wipf & Stock, 2016); Theology without Borders: Introduction to Global Conversations, co-authored with William Dyrness (Baker Academic, 2015); ¡Jesús, Hazme Como tú! 40 Maneras de Imitar a Cristo (Wipf & Stock, 2014); and The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit: A Latino/a Postmodern Ecclesiology (Pickwick, 2009).