The Liberating Spirit: Toward an Hispanic American Pentecostal Social Ethic

by Eldin Villafańe

For many years now an overriding passion has motivated my research--the construction of a social ethic for the Hispanic Pentecostal Church in the United States. This social ethic, though, must cohere with the Hispanic American socio-cultural experience as well as be consistent with Hispanic Pentecostalism's self understanding of ethics emerging from its experience of the Spirit. This has been the not too modest goal of this book. You, the reader, will be the judge whether I have made some contribution towards the end. - from the Introduction by the author.

Genres: Theology

276 pages, Paperback

First published December 13, 1991

About the author

Eldin Villafañe (Ph. D., Boston Univeristy) is an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God and professor of Christian social ethics at Gordon-conwell Theological Seminary, Boston. Villafañe, together with Harvey Cox, offered the first course on Pentecostalism at Harvard Divinity School in 1992. Within his books one finds a spirit of liberation, faith, and spirituality with justice.