Bishop Emilio Alvarez is one of the up-and-coming scholars and commentators on the intersection of religious education and theology in America. As a ministerial practitioner, his vast experience within the Christian Church world-wide has positioned him as a prophetic voice, especially within Afro/Latino communities of faith. Learn more
Bishop Emilio Alvarez
Bishop • Author • Theologian • Ecumenist
Pentecostal Orthodoxy: Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit coming in September!
“Can anything orthodox come from Pentecostalism?”
This recasting of Nathaniel’s familiar question from the Gospel is a fair summary of many modern Christians’ assessment of the Pentecostal tradition. Yet in recent years, a growing number of Pentecostals have been turning afresh to the ancient, creedal Christian faith.
Bishop Emilio Alvarez has himself been at the forefront of this movement. In Pentecostal Orthodoxy he introduces the phenomenon, and extends the project of paleo-orthodox ressourcement (associated with scholars such as Thomas Oden and Robert Webber) to include orthodox expressions within Pentecostalism, particularly his own Afro-Latino Pentecostal movement. This book is a manifesto of sorts, promising not only to open up the possibility of a genuinely orthodox Pentecostalism, but to reframe modern ecumenical dialogue as well.
In Pentecostal Orthodoxy, Dr. Alvarez is calling Afro American Latino Pentecostals to proudly stand on the shoulders of our fore-parents. I sincerely recommend this edition to be both read and studied by the who wish to understand the Great Tradition within the Holiness Pentecostal evolution of the church.
Bishop David M. Copeland Pentecostal Orthodoxy is a pioneering and provocative work of scholarship and renewing spirituality! As a pioneering work it breaks new ground by mapping and introducing the emerging Spirit-led growth of the "Ecumenism of the Spirit" among the Pentecostal church and beyond - one that is richly sourced by Orthodoxy.
Rev. Eldin Villafañe Alvarez paints a hopeful picture of the future of the church as one that is historically rooted and modern; orthodox and gracious; unified and diverse; sacramental and open to the Spirit. This book is a major resource for anyone wanting to know about the one of the most exciting things the Spirit is doing in the church today.
Dr. Winfield Bevins 
