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René Padilla, in 2019. (Screenshot: Fundación Kairos) Article continues below advertisement ↴ Carlos René Padilla, a very influential evangelical Latin American theologian, died at the age of 88 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in a humble family from Ecuador, René soon learned from his father and uncle about the vision of church planting in difficult contexts. At a young age, his family moved to Colombia. Although he later would attend college in the United States and earn a Ph.D. in New Testament in the UK, he worked most of his life in Latin America. Padilla was strongly involved in national evangelical student movements of the Comunidad Internacional de Estudiantes Evangélicos (in English, IFES), discipling and training young leaders in countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Perú and Ecuador. ....
René Padilla, in 2019. / Video capture of Fundación Kairos. Carlos René Padilla, a very influential evangelical Latin American theologian, died at the age of 88 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Born in a humble family from Ecuador, René soon learned from his father and uncle about the vision of church planting in difficult contexts. At a young age, his family moved to Colombia. Although he later would attend college in the United States and earn a PhD in New Testament in the UK, he worked most of his life in Latin America. Padilla was strongly involved in national evangelical student movements of the ....
Image: Courtesy of Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana / edits by Rick Szuecs Editor’s note: CT also offers a collection of tributes by leaders and friends of Padilla. C. René Padilla, theologian, pastor, publisher, and longtime staff member with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, died Tuesday, April 27, at the age of 88. Padilla was best known as the father of integral mission, a theological framework that has been adopted by over 500 Christian missions and relief organizations, including Compassion International and World Vision. Integral mission pushed evangelicals around the world to widen their Christian mission, arguing that social action and evangelism were essential and indivisible components in Padilla’s words, “two wings of a plane.” ....