Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell
Associate Professor of World Christianity and Witness
Education
ThD, Boston University
ThM, Princeton Theological Seminary
MDiv, Pentecostal Theological Seminary
BA, Lee University
Research Interests
Histories of Latin American Christianity & Latinx Christianity
Female Single Missionaries in the 19th Century
Pentecostalism
Theologies of Christian Witness
Theologies of Religious Pluralism
Courses Taught
Introduction to World Christianity
Christian Witness
Missionary Expansion of the Church
Publication Highlights
- Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell, Como Rios de Agua Viva: Teológias de la Misión Pentecostal Latinoamericana (Cleveland, TN: Centro de Estudios Hispanos, 2023).
- Tales of Mutual Influence: Biography as Missiology in Latin American Pentecostalism (Cleveland, TN: Centro de Estudios Hispanos, 2017).
- Contextual Theology and Revolutionary Transformation in Latin America: The Theology of M. Richard Shaull (Eugene: Pickwick Press, 2010).
- “Friendship and Liberation: A Latin American Perspective,” in Unlikely Friendships: How God Uses Boundary Crossing Friendships to Transform the World, Essays in Honor of Dana L. Robert (Oregon, Pickwick Press, 2021) 74-90.
- “Constructing Race in Puerto Rico: The Intersection of Christianity and Empires, 1508-1910,” Can White People be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission, Amos Yong, Love Sechrest, and Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, eds. (Westmont, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2018) 152-175.
- “Give Them Christ: Native Agency in the Evangelization of Puerto Rico, 1900-1917, Religions 12:3 (2021): 1-12.
- With Misoon Im, “The World Was Their Parish: Evangelistic Work of the Single Female Missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to Korea, 1887–1940,” Religions 14:2 (2023): 1-15.
About Dr. Santiago-Vendrell
Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell is a professor of world Christianity and witness. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico and came to faith in Christ at the age of nineteen after hearing a sermon by Rev. Ludy González, a Puerto Rican female Pentecostal pastor. He served as a youth pastor and assistant pastor in Puerto Rico, and as senior pastor of Iglesia Metodista Unida San Andres in Jamaica Plains, MA, for three years. Before coming to Truett, from 2008 to 2010, he was an assistant professor of mission studies at Memphis Theological Seminary, and from 2010 to 2023, he served as the E. Stanley Jones associate professor of evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary, Orlando Campus.
Dr. Santiago-Vendrell is passionate about missionary historiography, especially biographical studies, and how those stories could shape current Christian practices that are transforming and liberating. He also enjoys surfing, playing basketball, and building Star Wars Lego. He lives in the Waco area with his wife, Misoon Im, and their two sons.