Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi (born April 21, 1961) is a Puerto Rican theologian, historian, teacher, academic and author.
[1] Cardoza-Orlandi’s research focuses on the socio-cultural interplay between Christians and people of other faiths, the historical and current interpretations of the movement of the Christian religion at both the institutional and popular levels, and the theoretical and theological constructions of the current interplay between cultures and religions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He left Perkins School of Theology in 2018 and became the Frederick E. Roach Professor of Religion, World Christianity at Baylor University.
Utilizing a comparative approach from African Christian studies, he investigates the dynamics between these primal religious expressions in Latin America and the Caribbean and identifies the synergy between these traditions.
[7] In another book, Cardoza-Orlandi described the ambiguous nature of the term 'mission' in the context of North American Christians, and highlighted the works of Emil Brunner to support the idea that to be the church is to be in mission.