Samuel Escobar

Samuel Escobar (born 1934 in Arequipa , Peru ) is a Peruvian theologian with an evangelical orientation.

Samuel Escobar studied at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and received his doctorate from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid . From 1959 to 1985 he advised the international association of evangelical students in Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Canada. In 1974 he held a leading position at the International Congress for World Evangelization in Lausanne . From 1985 to 2005 Escobar taught as professor of missiology at the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Eastern University near Philadelphia , USA. Today Escobar lives in Valencia and teaches at the Facultad Protestante de Teología in Madrid.

Escobar coined the idea of ​​the so-called “integral mission”, which questions the dichotomy between social engagement and evangelism . The liberation theology that arose in the Catholic churches of the countries of Latin America influenced this form of evangelical theology in Central and South America.

Fonts (selection)

• La fe evangélica y las teologías de la liberacíon. Casa Bautista de Publicaciones, El Paso 1987.
• Evangelio y realidad social. Ensayos. Casa Bautista de Publicaciones, El Paso 1988.
• Tiempo de misión. América Latina y la misión cristiana hoy. Clara, Bogotá 1999.
  • Changing tides. Latin America and World Mission Today. Orbis Books, 2002.
• The new global mission: the Gospel from everywhere to everyone. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove 2003. ISBN 978-0-83083-301-6 .
• A time of mission: the challenge for global Christianity. InterVarsity Press, 2011; Langham Global Library, Carlisle 2013. ISBN 978-1-84474-549-4 .
• En busca de Cristo en America Latina. Ediciones Kairós, Buenos Aires 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biografía - Samuel Escobar. Retrieved July 1, 2018 (European Spanish).