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José Míguez Bonino (1924 -  ) is an Argentinian theologian and ordained minister of the United Methodist Church in Buenos Aires. He holds degrees in theology from the Facultád Evangelica de Teología (Union Seminary) in Buenos Aires, and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and received his PhD in theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York.

He is the single foremost protestant voice in Latin American liberation theology.

Biography
José Míguez Bonino was born in 1924 in Rasario, Argentina, the son of immigrant workers. He began his theological training in 1943 at the Facultád Evangelica de Teología (Union Seminary) in Buenos Aires, and in 1948 was ordained a minister of the Methodist church.

Between 1954 and 1958 he served as professor of dogmatic theology at his alma mater, where he would also edit the Testimonium of the Christian Student Movement.

He eventually completed his graduate studies in theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and in 1960 earned his PhD at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He then returned to Buenos Aires to serve as rector of the Facultád Evangelica de Teología and eventually became director of the postgraduate school of theology now known as the Evangelical Institute of Advanced Theological Studies (or ISEDET).

As an astute interpreter of classical reformation theology, and of contemporary Catholic and protestant thought, Miguez Bonino was the only Latin American protestant attendee of the Second Vatican Council. His Concilio Abierto, published in 1967, records his interpretation of this event from a protestant perspective.

José Míguez Bonino has been active in inter-church relations in Latin America and other parts of the world. In 1975 he was elected as a member of the presidium of the World Council of Churches (WCC). He has also been a participant in the movement for human rights in Argentina and, despite having no party affiliation, was elected to the assembly that made the 1994 amendment to the Argentine Constitution.

Theology
Like other works in liberation theology, the writtings of José Míguez Bonino focus on the relationship between the life of the church (particularly the poor) and the structures of social life. Miguez Bonino's work in particular exemplifies liberation theology's understanding of history as the locus of God's action. ....