Summer 2011/Pasadena
Two-week Intensive: July 18-29
GM574
Martínez
GM574: IGLESIA EVANGÉLICA LATINA--RETOS PARA EL FUTURO
[The Latino
Protestant Church--Challenges for the Future]. Juan Martínez.
DESCRIPTION: An analysis of the current challenges facing Latino Protestant
churches in the United States and a framework for looking at the issues that
they will need to address in the future. The course provides a description of
the principal challenges, some of the ways that churches have responded in the
past, the assets Latinos have to address the challenges, and an outline for
framing the Latino church's mission in the future.
SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: Leaders within Latino Protestant churches
need to analyze the issues they specifically confront and a framework for
addressing these issues from a missiological perspective.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: As objectives for the course, students will (1) understand
the principal challenges faced by Latino Protestant churches in the United
States today; (2) analyze the principal church models that are being used to
minister in the Latino/a community; (3) evaluate their own perspectives related
to Latino Protestant churches in the United States; and (4) develop plans for
new models of church and ministry within the Latino community.
COURSE FORMAT: This intensive course will meet daily for four-hour sessions
for two weeks. It will consist of lectures, discussions, and participatory
activities. The class will also visit Latino churches and ministries in the
area.
REQUIRED READING:
- González, Juan. Harvest of Empire. Viking, 2000.
ISBN: 0140255397. Pub. Pr. $17.00.
- González, Justo. Teología liberadora. Kairós,
2006. ISBN: 9879403916. Pub. Pr. $17.00.
- Martínez, Juan. Caminando entre el pueblo: Ministerio latino en
los Estados Unidos. Abingdon, 2008. ISBN: 0687492769. Pub. Pr. $18.00.
- Martínez, Juan. Los Protestantes: Latino Protestantism in the
United States. ABC-CLIO, 2011. ISBN: 0313393133. Pub. Pr. $44.95. [Readings
available on the Moodle web site.]
RECOMMENDED READING:
- Carroll, Daniel. Christians at the Border: Immigration, the
Church, and the Bible. Baker, 2008. ISBN: 9780801035661. Pub. Pr. $16.99.
- García-Johnson, Oscar. The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit: A
Postmodern Latino/a Ecclesiology. Pickwick, 2008. ISBN: 1556357192. Pub.
Pr. $19.00.
- Maldonado, Jorge, and Juan Martínez, eds. Vivir y servir en el
exilio Lecturas teológicas de la experiencia latina en los Estados
Unidos. Kairós, 2008. ISBN: 9871355157. Pub. Pr. $17.00.
- Martínez, Juan. Sea la Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism
in the American Southwest, 1829-1900. University of North Texas Press,
2006. ISBN: 1574412221. Pub. Pr. 23.95.
- Rodríguez, Daniel. A Future for the Latino Church: Models for
Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations. InterVarsity Press,
2011. ISBN: 0830839305. Pub. Pr. $19.00.
- Sánchez-Walsh, Arlene. Latino Pentecostal Identity. Colombia
University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0231127332. Pub. Pr. $29.00.
- Stavans, Ivan. La condición hispánica. Tierra Firme,
1999. ISBN: 0060937394. Pub. Pr. $15.00.
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:
- Read before first class session: Harvest of Empire [or La
condición hispánica] and turn in a 1-2 page reflection paper
(10%).
- Class attendance and response to reading and in-class assignments (35%).
- Read 250 pages from recommended reading or the class bibliography and turn
in a reading report (10%).
- Write a two-page description of a Latino church or ministry model different
than the one the student participates in (10%).
- Analyze one of the challenges the Latino community is facing and develop a
plan for how the Latino church can respond (8-10 pages) (35%).
PREREQUISITES: Spanish.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets Hispanic Church Studies concentration.
This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification. (April 2011)