Oscar García-Johnson
Rev. Dr. Oscar García-Johnson is Associate Professor of Theology and Latino/a Studies at the Fuller Theological Seminary, where he is also Associate Dean of Centro Latino and Assistant Provost for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community (Centro Latino). His research methodology interlaces de/postcolonial studies, classical theologies, and US Latino/Latin American studies into a critical hermeneutic he calls Transoccidentality.
Dr. García-Johnson holds a BA from University of La Verne, and MA and PhD degrees from at 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.
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); The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit: A Latino/a Postmodern Ecclesiology (Pickwick, 2009); and chapters in The Spirit Over the Earth: Pneumatology in the Majority World (Eerdmanns, 2016); The Gospel after Christendom: New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions (Baker Academic, 2012); Vivir y servir en el exilio: Lecturas teológicas de la experiencia latina en los Estados Unidos (Kairos, 2008); and Pasando la Antorcha (Kerigma, 2005).
Dr. García-Johnson is a social activist involved in faith-rooted holistic justice with Matthew 25 of Southern California, LA RED, and CCDA. As co-founder of Omega Generation project, he is committed to facilitating thriving ministry environments for Latinx millennials and Latina women. Dr. García-Johnson is a member of the Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana, the American Academy of Religion, and La Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana.
