The Hispanic Faculty Experience: Opportunities for Growth and Retention in Christian Colleges and Universities
This book provides a much-needed and unique opportunity for Hispanic faculty members in CCCU institutions to share their experiences as Hispanic professors in Christian higher education institutions and encourage the next generation of Hispanic scholars. The book will be especially useful for leaders in Christian higher education. All chapters tell the story of Hispanic faculty members in CHE from their own voices with a general framework of their career to the professoriate and their experiences in teaching, research, service, and mentoring.
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Christian Education: Prospects and Retrospects
This book is a tribute to honor Robert (Bob) Pazmiño’s outstanding career as a Christian educator, but also a recognition for his faithfulness as a scholar-teacher-mentor and most importantly, as a committed follower of Christ.
“Robert Pazmino embodies the life of Christian service to the Church through his scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. His research and writing have helped to form and shape the scope of the field of Christian education. These essays are also a reminder of his significant impact on Latino/a theological education and its leaders. I highly recommend this book as a lens to see both his scholarship and the heart of a faithful servant of Christ.” Dr. Mark A. Maddix, Dean, School of Theology & Christian Ministry, Point Loma Nazarene University
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Anointed Teaching: Partnership With The Holy Spirit (Also available in Spanish)
“This is not a how-to book on teaching, but one with the daring vision that Christian teaching is a vocation, a high calling, which is empowered by God’s Spirit, embodies the gifts of the Spirit, and generates the transformative life-giving fruits of the Spirit. Teaching requires a prophetic and participatory pneumatology whose mission is to touch every dimension of individual, community, and social existence. Teaching is a profound privilege and a responsibility! This volume explains why.” Dr. M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas), Blanchard Professor of Old Testament
Wheaton College and Graduate School
“Anointing Teaching focuses on the cooperative work of the teacher, informed by the best in social science, while placing dependency on the liberating power of the third person of the Triune God—the Holy Spirit. Pazmiño and Esqueda’s book gives focus to the Holy Spirit’s revelation and empowerment to transform human persons into Christlike disciples through faithful teaching.” Dr. Mark A. Maddix, Dean, School of Theology & Christian Ministry, Point Loma Nazarene University
“Robert W. Pazmiño and Octavio J. Esqueda explore Spirit-infused education in their book Anointed Teaching: Partnership with the Holy Spirit. These respected experts draw on broad international experience and a wide range of sources—geographically, across time, and inclusive of the main branches of Christianity—for helping teachers embrace and pass on Spirit-filled faith. Highly recommended.” Dr. Sandra Glahn, Dallas Theological Seminary professor and author of more than twenty-five books, including the Coffee Cup Bible Study series
“Discover the Holy Spirit and its work in new ways as you read these pages. The authors include new perspectives and dimensions of the Holy Spirit as it relates to Christian education that refresh and inspire our work and commitments as educators of the church. The integration of the biblical/theological with the practice and theory of Christian education is not found in other sources like you will find here. The reading is accessible for scholars, as well as lay teachers while accessibility has not substituted depth of thought.” Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Coordinator of Relations for Theological Institutions, Association for Hispanic Theological Education
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The Cruciform Faculty: The Making of a Christian Professor
How do you orient new faculty members to their role on a Christian campus? How do you lead faculty members toward a deeper understanding of the Christian dimension of their place in higher education? Bible Colleges, Christian Universities, and Seminaries all struggle with these issues. What kind of resource can be provided to a faculty member or use in faculty development discussions with faculty to lead them toward a Christian perspective on the role and function of a professor? This book is designed to serve as just such a resource. It provides a concise portrait of the general role of faculty from a distinctively evangelical Christian perspective, using the metanarrative of being formed by the cross, i.e. cruciform, to discuss their role as teachers in the classroom, mentors to the students, scholars within the academy, and servants of the church and community. Each chapter will have personal and group reflection questions and exercises to aid in application.
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Cuban Christian Theological Higher Education: The History of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary within the context of theological education in Cuba and the Cuban Revolution. This groundbreaking book explores three major goals. The first one is historical: to document and evaluate the rise, survival, and achievements of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary, which has continued its mission through extraordinary political opposition and economical difficulties. The second major goal is institutional: to gain insight into Cuban seminary modus operandi. The third goal is to identify the perceived needs of the seminary. This study makes available information that can facilitate a better understanding of Cuban Christian theological higher education.
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Book Chapter “Biblical-Theological Foundations of Christian Education” in Christian Education: A Guide to the Foundations of Ministry
This introductory textbook solidly situates Christian education in the church and ministry context of the 21st century.
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Book Chapter “The Reformation In Light of a Christian Formation Perspective Within the Life of Our Latino People” in Our 95 Theses: 500 Years After the Reformation (Also available in Spanish)
Just as in the days of Luther, we are living in a world undergoing enormous changes in the social political, economic, religious, cultural and technological arenas. As in the times of the monk from Wittenberg, these changes also challenge and force the Church to rethink and transform itself.
For this reason, the Association for Hispanic Theological Education (AETH for its name in Spanish) considers the publication of this book very relevant. Because it is about commemorating what happened five centuries ago as much as about reliving it in light of our realities.
In a very particular way, this book is an invitation to the Church in general and to the Hispanic Church in particular not to forget thesis raised by the authors: “We are not helpless victims, but God’s people called to be an instrument of his grace, justice, and reconciliation.”
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Book Chapter “La Reforma Española: La Influencia Protestante en México y Latinoamérica” in Die, spanische Reformation‘. Sonderwege reformatorischen Gedankengutes in Spanien und Hispanoamerika.
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Book chapters “God as Teacher,” “The Holy Spirit as Teacher,” and “How to Study the Bible” in The Teaching Ministry of the Church, 2nd edition
The Teaching Ministry of the Church presents a full overview of Christian education in four major sections: Theological Foundations, Biblical Foundations, Preparation for Teaching, and Structuring the Teaching Ministry of the Church. Within this framework, a step-by-step plan for establishing and maintaining an effective teaching ministry among preschoolers, children, youth, and adults takes shape.
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