I came to know the love of God and the grace of Jesus in a transformative way as a teenager. Soon after, the Holy Spirit urged me to take leadership of a Bible Study in my high school. Being a new believer, I dove into studying Scripture so that I could responsibly teach others. That calling has stayed with me now for decades – being a committed student of the Bible so that I can teach others well. Over the years, God also called me into ministries with people facing homelessness, international refugees, and persons with disabilities. I seek to bring the best, scholarly study of Scripture to engage with God’s heart to save and sanctify people and all creation. I am to Anne, and we have three children from teenager to young adult. I play trombone and enjoy loving others by making them tasty food, especially fresh-baked bread.
I gave a presentation with Dr. Frank Poncé on the assessment of general education outcomes at the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis in the Spring of 2023.
I continue to be fascinated by the interaction and intersection of our minds, bodies, senses, thinking, and emotions as evoked by the persuasive stories of Scripture. This interdisciplinary approach is at the heart of a commentary that I am writing on the Gospel of Luke for the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity
PHD
Regent University , 2011
MDIV
Pentecostal Theological Seminary , 1994
BA
West Coast College , 1991
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Hispanic Pentecostalism.” In the reference volume “Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity,” edited by Stanley M. Burgess. New York: Routledge, 2006.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. Entry on environmentalism in the reference work “Hispanic American Religious Cultures,” edited by Miguel A. De La Torre. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2009.
- Nolivos, Eloy H., and Virginia T. Nolivos. “Pentecostalism’s Theological Reconstruction of the Identity of the Latin American Family.” In “Pentecostal Power: Expressions, Impact and Faith of Latin American Pentecostalism,” edited by Calvin Smith. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, vol. 6. Boston: Brill, 2011.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Capitalism and Pentecostalism in Latin America: Trajectories of Prosperity and Development.” In “Pentecostalism and Prosperity: The Socio-economics of the Global Charismatic Movement,” edited by Katherine Attanasi and Amos Yong, 87-106. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Ecuadorian Pentecostalism at the Middle of the Earth.” In “Global Renewal Christianity: Spirit-Empowered Movements Past, Present, and Future, Volume II: Latin America,” edited by Vinson Synan, Amos Yong and Miguel Álvarez. Lake Mary, Florida: Charisma House, 2016.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Latin America Christianity.” In “Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism,” edited by Michael Wilkinson, Connie Au, Jörg Haustein and Todd M. Johnson. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Ecuadorian Christianity in the Twenty-First Century.” In “Edinburgh Companion to Global Christianity, Volume 6: Latin America,” edited by Kenneth R. Ross, Ana María Bidegain and Todd M. Johnson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Ecuador.” In “Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean,” edited by Kenneth Ross, Ana Maria Bidegain and Todd M. Johnson, 122-128. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press / Edinburgh University Press, print year 2022, online 2024.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Ontología Comunal en la Unión entre Dios y el Ser Humano: John Zizioulas en Dialogo con Santificación Pentecostal.” In “Teología Pentecostal Latinoamericana,” vol. 2, edited by Wilfredo Estrada Adorno. Garner, North Carolina: Editorial UNILIMI, forthcoming 2023.
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- Nolivos, Eloy H. “Hermeneutics and Missions in the Land of the Equinox.” Evangelical Review of Theology 35, no. 1 (January 2011): 41-50.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. Review of “Más Allá del Espíritu: Actores, Acciones y Prácticas en Iglesias Pentecostales,” edited by Carolina Rivera Farfán and Elizabeth Juárez Cerdi. Pneuma 32, no. 3 (2010): 452-453.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. Review of “Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America,” edited by Paul Freston. Religious Studies Review 35, no. 1 (March 2009): 67.
- Nolivos, Eloy H. Review of “To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity,” by Allan Heaton Anderson. Pneuma 36, no. 3 (2014): 492-494.
