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Articles & Essays Asian Americans Bible Race

Moral Innovation and Ambiguity in Asian American Christianity

An article in Theology Today. ABSTRACT“The Parable of the Shrewd Manager” in Luke 16 illuminates some important features of Asian American life. Like the parable’s central character, Asian Americans live under a set of cultural expectations where success is achieved by accepting terms set by…

Jonathan TranOctober 22, 2018

Articles & Essays Augustine Church

Assessing the Augustinian Democrats

An article from the Journal of Religious Ethics. ABSTRACTIn this essay I argue that Christian political participation as envisioned by those I term “Augustinian democrats”—a group of Protestant ethicists following a path cleared by Jeffrey Stout’s 2004 Democracy and Tradition—is founded upon an elegantly rendered…

Jonathan TranSeptember 30, 2018

Church Race Talks & Lectures

Pressing Past Racialization in the De-Colonial Missionary Context

At a 2017 conference at Fuller Seminary, Jonathan Tran discusses how harmful black-white binary views of race plague mission efforts within the Asian American experience.

Jonathan TranFebruary 24, 2018

College/University Talks & Lectures

Finding Love in College

Jonathan Tran speaks to Baylor University students at the 2017 Academic Convocation, marking the beginning of the academic year. Click here to watch and listen. Dr. Tran's address begins at 44:19.

Jonathan TranAugust 18, 2017

Articles & Essays Church Politics

A Sanctuary Politics: Being the Church in the Time of Trump (co-written with Stanley Hauerwas)

This article was originally published by ABC Religion & Ethics. The two of us admit that, back when Donald Trump's presidential candidacy was at best a strange curiosity, we entertained its possibility as an adventurous thought experiment: "What would that be like?" Now that we live in…

Jonathan TranMarch 30, 2017

Articles & Essays Philosophy of Language Theology

Linguistic Theology: Completing Postliberalism’s Linguistic Task

An article in Modern Theology. TranLangTheoMOTH-2Download

Jonathan TranNovember 8, 2016

Talks & Lectures Theology

A Conversation with Stanley Hauerwas

https://www.youtube.com/embed/t2Mg82bP27w Jonathan Tran interviews Stanley Hauerwas at Baylor University, using questions from the university community.

Jonathan TranDecember 13, 2013

Church Talks & Lectures

Anne and the Difficult Gift of Stanley Hauerwas’s Church

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XitfdEJcr0U Jonathan Tran speaks at Duke University for an event in honor of Stanley Hauerwas, on the occasion of his retirement.

Jonathan TranNovember 14, 2013

Articles & Essays Barth Children Foucault

The Otherness of Children as a Hint of an Outside: Michel Foucault, Richard Yates, and Karl Barth on Suburban Life

An article in Theology & Sexuality. The essay shows how the ordinary life of children might save suburbia from itself. Disenchanted with contemporary existence, temptations of ideality tend to both vilify and verify suburban life as banal, yet to the extent that suburban life means…

Jonathan TranJune 1, 2009

Articles & Essays Forgiveness Memory Narrative

Emplotting Forgiveness: Narrative, Forgetting, and Memory

An article for Literature & Theology. ABSTRACT Miroslav Volf has provocatively argued that redemption necessitates forgetting (1996, 2006). Yet, Volf's claims insufficiently consider the narratival configuration of memory. This essay utilises Paul Ricoeur's work on mimesis in order to challenge Volf's case for forgetting. The…

Jonathan TranJune 1, 2009

Jonathan Tran

Moral Innovation and Ambiguity in Asian American Christianity

Assessing the Augustinian Democrats

Pressing Past Racialization in the De-Colonial Missionary Context

Finding Love in College

A Sanctuary Politics: Being the Church in the Time of Trump (co-written with Stanley Hauerwas)

Linguistic Theology: Completing Postliberalism’s Linguistic Task

A Conversation with Stanley Hauerwas

Anne and the Difficult Gift of Stanley Hauerwas’s Church

The Otherness of Children as a Hint of an Outside: Michel Foucault, Richard Yates, and Karl Barth on Suburban Life

Emplotting Forgiveness: Narrative, Forgetting, and Memory

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