18 Latin American Female Theologians You Should Know About

Juliany González Nieves

Juliany González Nieves is an evangélica Puerto Rican pursuing a Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Before her time at TEDS, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Puerto Rico.

In 1651, Mexico gave birth to whom is arguably the first female theologian in the Americas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. 1 Throughout the decades, a number of Latin American women have followed in her footsteps, defying stereotypes and socioreligious norms, and dedicating their lives to the monumental task of theology. However, for a long time an “invisible invisibility” rendered their voices silent and their presence unnoticed by many in the Anglo-European scholarship. As Cuban theologian Ada María Isasi-Díaz writes,