He is a leading voice in the growing field of Hispanic theology,[3][4][5][6] comparable to such figures as Virgilio Elizondo, Orlando Costas,[7] and Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz.
González is one of the few first generation Latino theologians to come from a Protestant background[8] With the Mexican-American United Methodist minister Roy Barton, González helped found the first academic journal related to Latino theology, Apuntes, published by the Mexican-American program of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
[13][14] A festschrift has been published for him: Hispanic Christian Thought at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Apuntes in Honor of Justo L. González, edited by Alvin Padilla, Roberto Goizueta, Eldin Villafañe (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005) with contributions from Roman Catholic and Protestant Latino theologians, historians, and biblical scholars.
Justo González is the main narrator for the video lessons of the Christian Believer study course from Cokesbury publishing.
[15] In 1984–5 González wrote a popular two volume textbook entitled The Story of Christianity that covers the history of the church from founding till the present in a readable style.