Description: '"Church renewal" is widely discussed across Methodism today, and yet such renewal will not happen apart from serious engagement with and from the margins of society. Through a series of new and previously published essays, this book looks to the experiences of Methodists in Latin American pueblos and Hispanic barrios to open new scholarly conversations about doctrine, worship, and mission for the sake of social renewal. The flames of renewal do not confine themselves to Methodism. But from the people called metodista they can spread, sharing in the Wesleyan movement's fundamental calling to revitalize the church universal in its mission to the world.'
Brief description: Edgardo Colón-Emeric Dean of Duke Divinity School and the Irene and William McCutchen Associate Professor of Reconciliation and Theology, director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation, and senior strategist for the Hispanic House of Studies. He represents the UMC in ecumenical Faith and Order dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church. He is an ordained elder in the North Carolina Conference and served a church in Durham.