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New Podcast: From the Bay of Pigs to Mestizo Augustine

, · June 16, 2020

How did turmoil in Cuba lead Justo Gonzalez into the strange new world of church history? How does Justo Gonzalez balance cultural insight and biblical fidelity? How did Augustine’s background affect Gonzalez’s insights into the Donatist and Pelagian controversies? What motivated the Reformers to go back to the sources to reconceive theological education? Can the past help us reform theological education today?

In this episode, Matthew Barrett talks with Justo Gonzalez about his upbringing in Cuba, his discovery of Augustine, his take on the Reformation, and his proposal for the renewal of theological education today.

Justo L. González

Justo L. González, retired professor of historical theology and author of The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures, Christianity in Latin America, Luke: A Theological Commentary, and the highly praised three-volume History of Christian Thought. He attended United Seminary in Cuba and was the youngest person to be awarded a Ph.D. in historical theology at Yale University. Over the past thirty years he has focused on developing programs for the theological education of Hispanics, and he has received four honorary doctorates.

Matthew Barrett

Matthew Barrett is the editor-in-chief of Credo Magazine, director of the Center for Classical Theology, and host of the Credo podcast. He is professor of Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the author of several books, including Simply Trinity, which won the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award in Theology/Ethics. His new book is called The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. He is currently writing a Systematic Theology with Baker Academic.

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