About

Edgardo Colón-Emeric is the Irene and William McCutchen Associate Professor of Reconciliation and Theology, Associate Dean for Academic Formation, and Director of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School. Colón-Emeric’s work explores the intersection of Methodist and Catholic theologies, Wesleyan and Latin-American experiences with the goal of advancing the gospel of reconciliation in Christ. Colón-Emeric is the author of Wesley, Aquinas, and Christian Perfection: An Ecumenical Dialogue (Baylor University Press, 2009) which received the 2008 “Aquinas Dissertation Prize Winner” from the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University, Óscar Romero’s Theological Vision: Liberation and the Transfiguration of the Poor (Notre Dame University Press, 2018) which received first place in the 2019 Catholic Press Book Award. Colón-Emeric is an ordained minister in The United Methodist Church and represents global Methodism in ecumenical dialogues with the Catholic Church.