Embracing Hopelessness

Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He has published over thirty-one books, including Social Justice from a Latino/a Perspective (2013), The Quest for the Historical Satan (Fortress Press, 2011), Liberating Jonah: Forming an Ethics of Reconciliation (2007), and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (2004). He was president of the Society for Christian Ethics and a board member of the American Academy of Religion. He was also the founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion. His award-winning documentary Trails of Hope and Terror has been shown at international film festivals.