Building Bridges, Doing Justice: Constructing a Latino/a Ecumenical Theology Book

Contributors xi

Introduction: Constructing a Conversation Culture, Ecumenical Dialogue, and a Renewed Pneumatology Orlando O. Espín 1

Part I Power Relations and social Issues Do/Should These Shape and Critique Latina/o (Christian) Understandings of God?

1 From Pájaro to Paraclete Retrieving the Spirit of God in the Company of Mary Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández 13

2 God and Difference Mayra Rivera 29

Part II Relating Bible and Tradition Can Latinas/os Do It Differently?

3 The World Became Flesh and the Flesh Becomes Word Notes toward a U.S. Latino/a Theology of Revelation Jean-Pierre Ruiz 47

4 Sola Scriptura and Latino/a Protestant Hermeneutics An Exploration Efraín Agosto 69

Part III Grace and Justification Soteriology and Theological Anthropology Shaped a la latina

5 Outside the Survival of Community there Is No Salvation A U.S. Hispanic Catholic Contribution to Soteriology Miguel H. Díz 91

6 Shaping Soteriology a la latina Christian Theology and Writer Piri Thomas José D. Rodríguez 112

Part IV Eccesiology a Lo Mestizo/a Y Mulato/a What Happens to "Church" When We Move Latinamente beyond Inherited Ecclesiologies?

7 Corpus Verum toward a Borderland Ecclesiology Roberto S. Goizueta 143

8 What Happens to Church When We Move Latinamente beyond Inherited Ecclesiologies? Juan Francisco Martínez 167

Part V Toward the Next Step

9 Convivencias: What Have We Learned? Toward a Latino/a Ecumenical Theology Neomi De Anda Néstor Medina 185

Index 197