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The Reverend Paul Barton, Ph.D.

The Reverend Jaime Case

The Reverend Al Rodríguez

The Reverend Javier Alanís, Ph.D.

The Reverend Eliseo Pérez, Ph.D.

The Rev. Paul Barton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in the History of American Christianity and Missiology
Director of Hispanic Church Studies

Seminary of the Southwest

Paul Barton came to Seminary of the Southwest in the fall of 1999, following graduation from the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University.  His concentration in Church History focused upon the history of U.S. Christianity and Mexican and Southwestern Christianity and culture.  He tied these two strands of the Christian tradition together in his dissertation,  In Both Worlds: A History of Hispanic Protestantism in the US Southwest,  In which be examined the religious and cultural changes that occurred as Spanish-speaking persons along the U.S. Mexico borderlands converted to and remained within the Protestant tradition.

In his current position, Dr. Barton teaches  courses in the history of U.S. Christianity, the history of Hispanic Christianity, Missiology, and Hispanic ministry. He also assists faculty to meet the curricular goals of incorporating Hispanic perspectives, issues and texts into their courses and to help graduates to minister in cross cultural settings.   He has also taught the course in the history US Hispanic Christianity for the Hispanic Summer Program, an ecumenical two-week M.Div. program for Hispanic seminarians and others involved in Hispanic ministry.

Dr. Barton graduated with an M.Div. degree from Perkins School Of Theology at Southern Methodist University In 1988. Upon graduation, he served Spanish speaking congregations for four years in South Texas. He is an ordained elder in the Rio Grande Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Dr. Barton is a second-generation Mexican American.  His mother, Rosa Marina Barton de Bolado,  emigrated with her family from Mexico in the early 1930s.   His great grandfather on his father's side, Máximo Villareal,  was among the first generation of Mexican and Mexican-American Methodist ministers in the 1880s.   His father, Roy Barton,  is a retired minister in the Rio Grande Conference of The United Methodist Church.

B.A.--Southwestern University

M.Div.--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

Ph.D.--Graduate Program in Religious Studies Southern Methodist University

Contact:

Rev. Paul Barton, Ph.D

Associate Professor in the History of American Christianity and Missiology
Director of Hispanic Church Studies

Seminary of the Southwest
www.ssw.edu

P.O. Box 2247

Austin, TX  78768

512/439-0338

512/474-5443  (fax)

pbarton@ssw.edu

www.latinoreligion.com

The Reverend Jaime Case

Associate Faculty in Hispanic Church Studies

Seminary of the Southwest


Canon Missioner for Multicultural Ministries,
the Episcopal Diocese of Texas

The Reverend Jaime Case guided the growth of a multicultural mission - San Francisco de Asis - and its Jubilee Center - El Buen Samaritano - in Austin for nine years before being named Executive Director of Province VII's Center for Hispanic Ministries in 2003. Case, who grew up in the Philippines with missionary parents, brings a multicultural view to the Hispanic Center. "I intend to demythologize Hispanic ministry and make it more accessible to all. We are living in multicultural times. Let's learn to live into this with the largest group of people possible," he says.

B.A., Coe College.

M.Div., Seminary of the Southwest

Contact:

Jaime Case

The Center For Hispanic Ministries

P.O. Box 2247

Austin, TX 78768

Wk: (512) 477-2644

jcase@austin.rr.com
jcase@epicenter.org

www.elcentrovii.org

The Reverend Al Rodriguez

Rector

St. John's Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas

The Reverend Al Rodriguez is priest and Rector at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Austin.  Fr. Al served as Assistant to the Rector and eventually as Priest in Charge of Trinity Episcopal Church in Longview, Texas.  Prior to, and during his seminary studies, Rev. Rodriguez directed the Episcopal human needs mission known as "El Buen Samaritano," a social ministry that he helped to establish in 1986.  His previous career has spanned both governmental and private business sectors in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Texas, with a concentration on community and economic development.

Rev. Rodriguez holds a Masters of Divinity from the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.  His prior educational background includes a B.B.A. degree in Business Administration from St. Mary's University, and completion of graduate course work at the University of Pittsburgh in the field of social and economic development.  Fr. Al also completed Peace Corps training in the field of community development at the University of Notre Dame.

Rev. Rodriguez has been a member of the Diocese of Texas for the past 28 years, and as a layperson, helped organize the diocesan Commission on Hispanic Ministries, and is still a current member.  He is a member of the diocesan World Mission Division, and a past Chair of the Diocesan Standing Committee.  Rev. Rodriguez is currently a trustee of the Hispanic Scholarship Trust Fund at the national church level, and a past member of the Episcopal Anti-Racism Committee for the national church.  He also serves as a supervising pastor for Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest seminarians doing field education at St John's.

Contact:

Al Rodriguez

St. John's Episcopal Church

11201 Parkfield Drive, at Braker Lane

Austin, TX  78758

(512) 836-3974

(512) 836-3936  (fax)

http://austinstjohns.org/

The Reverend Javier Alanis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Theology, Culture and Mission

Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest (LSPS)

Professor Alanis joined the LSPS faculty in 2000. His academic interests include systematic theology and ethics, missiology in a multicultural context end peace and justice concerns as they relate to the role of the church in society.   He has a particular interest in Hispanic/Latino theology and ethics and the contribution that U.S. liberation theologians bring to the theological roundtable.   He also brings with him training in spiritual direction and formation as a discipline and model for the spiritual life and the vocational discernment process.   After graduation from LSPS  in 1992, he served as a pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, San Antonio, for four years.   During that time he chaired the Southwestern Texas Synod's Multicultural Committee and Anti-Racism Team.   He also serve one the Synod's Evangelism Committee while in seminary.   Before coming to seminary as a student in the late 1980s, he was an attorney and prior to that an auditor/accountant with two multinational corporations.

B.A., Washington University

M.IM., American Graduate School of International Management

J.D., University of Texas

M.Div., Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest

Th.M., Ph.D., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Contact

Javier Alanis

Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest

(512)  477-2666

(512)  477-6693  (fax)

607 Rathervue Place

Austin, Texas 78705

revjay3@juno.com

Horacio Peña, Ph.D.

Instructor in Spanish

Seminary of the Southwest

Nicaraguan born poet and linguist, Dr. Peña has taught the Spanish language at the Seminary of the Southwest since 1980. As professor of Spanish at the nearby  Huston-Tillotson College in Austin, he teaches Spanish at all levels. He has also taught at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., during many summers. Several of Dr. Peña’s poems, short stories and essays – including “The One Thousand Faces of God in Central American Poetry” – have been published in the United States,  Costa Rica, and Central and South America. Dr. Peña is a member of the Nicaraguan Language Academy.

M.A., Universidad Nacional de Nicaragua

Ph.D.,  University of Texas at Austin

Contact:

512-472-4133

Seminary of the Southwest
www.ssw.edu

P.O. Box 2247

Austin, TX  78768