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Center for Faith in
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EFRAIN
AGOSTO
Academic Dean
Professor of
New Testament and Director, Programa de Ministerios Hispanos
B.A. (Columbia University)
M.Div. (Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary);
Ph.D. (Boston University Graduate School)
Specialization:
New Testament Introduction & Interpretation, Pauline Studies, Latino
Theological Studies
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Center for Faith in Practice
77 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT 06105 USA
Telephone: 860/509-9536
Fax: 860/509-9509
Email: eagosto@hartsem.edu
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Efraín
Agosto is the Academic Dean, Professor of New Testament and Director of the Programa de Ministerios Hispanos (Hispanic Ministries Program) at Hartford Seminary. He came to Hartford in July 1995 after serving on the staff of the Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Boston for 12 years, from 1983-1995, the last five years as director of this inner-city urban theological education program, a campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Efraín is a 1982 M.Div. graduate of Gordon-Conwell and completed his Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from Boston University in June 1995. He is currently serving as the Interim Dean of Hartford Seminary.
Efraín was born and raised in New York City; his parents came to New York from Puerto Rico in the 1950s. He attended New York City public schools and received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1977. Efrain was nurtured in New York Hispanic Pentecostal churches and became a licensed minister with the Hispanic Assemblies of God in 1984. He has served on the pastoral staffs of Hispanic Pentecostal, Baptist and Congregational churches in New York, Boston, and East Hartford, Connecticut. In 2000, he completed a one-year term on an interim pastoral team at the Iglesia Cristiana Nueva Esperanza (United Church of Christ) in East Hartford, where he continues to worship as an active lay member.
In his work in New Testament studies, Efraín teaches, researches and writes on the Pauline Epistles, especially the leadership and ministry of Paul and others in these communities. His book, Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul, was published by Chalice Press in 2005. It studies the social status, practices and theology of leaders in the earliest Christian communities, including the Jesus movement and Pauline Christianity. He has taught courses in Paul and His Urban Churches, New Testament Introduction, Readings in Pauline Theology and Ministry, and Leadership in the New Testament: A Case Study Approach. He has a new book coming out in Spring 2008, Corintios, Spanish-language lay commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians for Fortress Press.
Efrain’s wider service includes the Final Selection Committee and Mentor for the Hispanic Theological Initiative, a scholarship and mentoring organization funded by Pew Charitable Trusts and housed at Princeton Seminary, to develop Latino and Latina doctoral candidates in religion and theology. Efrain has also served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Theological Schools and as a faculty representative to the Board of Trustees of Hartford Seminary.
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