The Spirit over the Earth

OSCAR GARCÍA-JOHNSON (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of theology and Latino/a studies and associate dean for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community at Fuller Seminary in California. Born in Honduras, he is an ordained minister with the American Baptist Churches, planted four churches, and worked as a Regional Minister for the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles for eleven years prior to coming to Fuller. He is the author of Jesús, Hazme Como Tú: Cuarenta Maneras de Imitar a Cristo (Wipf and Stock, 2014) and The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit (Pickwick, 2009) and coauthor of Theology without Borders: Introduction to Global Conversations (Baker Academic, 2015). His current research focuses on critical ecclesiology, de-colonial theology, and intercultural/global religious conversations from the South.

WEI HUA (PhD, Peking University) is associate professor of philosophy and Christian studies at Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. He has published several articles on biblical and Augustinian studies, including A Brief Investigation of Sarx and Sōma in Romans (Biblical Literature Studies 6 [February 2012]), On the Rise of Augustine’s Concept of Voluntas (Sino-Christian Studies 15 [June 2013]), and Galatians 2:11–14 and the Exegetical Controversy between Augustine and Jerome (Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology 42 [Spring 2015]).

Samuel M. Ngewa is Dean of the Graduate School at Africa International University, Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a PhD in Biblical Interpretation from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, USA, and has published numerous works on New Testament studies. He is on the pastoral team at Africa Inland Church Lang’ata in Nairobi.

DAVID TONGHOU NGONG (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of religion and theology at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is originally from Cameroon, Africa. In addition to many articles, he is the author of The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology (Peter Lang, 2010) and Theology as Construction of Piety: An African Perspective (Wipf and Stock, 2013).

DR. C. RENÉ PADILLA (1932-2021) was one of Latin America’s most distinguished evangelical scholars. He was a founding member of the Latin American Theological Fellowship (FTL) and of the Kairos Foundation in Buenos Aires. He served with distinction in IFES and Tear Fund – UK and Ireland, and as President of the Micah Network, President Emeritus of the Kairos Foundation, and Executive Director of Ediciones Kairos.

Ivan Satyavrata serves as Senior Pastor of the assembly of God Church in Kolkata, India. He has played an active role in Christian leadership training and ministerial education, and is currently Board Chair of the Centre for Global Leadership Development (formerly Southern Asia Bible College) in Bangalore, India.

ZAKALI SHOHE is associate professor of New Testament and academic dean at Trinity Theological College (affiliated with the Senate of Serampore College [University]) in Dimapur, Nagaland, India. She has contributed chapters to several monographs and is the coeditor of Theology-In Context (2010). Her upcoming monograph is Acceptance Motif in Paul: Revisiting Romans 15:7–13 (Peter Lang).

AMOS YONG (PhD, Boston University) is professor of theology and mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has authored or edited more than forty books, including, most recently, Renewing Christian Theology: Systematics for a Global Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2014).