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Articles & Essays Asian Americans Race Theology

In God’s Economy, Racial Groups Are Not Competitors

This essay was adapted from a sermon preached at University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, on May 2, 2021. It was originally published for Sojourners. I grew up in the decades after the United States fought in three wars in three subsequent decades with three Asian countries:…

Jonathan TranMay 20, 2021

Articles & Essays Ethnography Racial Capitalism Whiteness

(Post)Critical Political Theology and the Uses and Misuses of Whiteness Discourse

A journal article for Political Theology. ABSTRACTIn this essay, I advance a theological account of critique that attends to the material nature of creaturely life. This account involves first the “postcritique” movement recently taken up by literary theorists. In order to demonstrate what postcritique involves…

Jonathan TranApril 20, 2021

Articles & Essays Philosophy of Language Theology

Cora Diamond’s Theological Imagination

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Jonathan TranJuly 20, 2020

Articles & Essays Race

The Ends of Anti-Racist Protest

Originally written for Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. If one thinks, as I do, that racism functions as justification for dominative exploitation, then the meaning and implications of George Floyd’s brutal murder extend far beyond the public protests raging across…

Jonathan TranJune 10, 2020

Articles & Essays Asian Americans Race

Response to K. C. Choi’s Disciplined by Race

This essay was written for an online symposium on Choi's book through Syndicate. I am currently writing a book called Yellow Christianity: An Intervention on Christian Anti-Racist Discourse . Since I spend a lot of time there developing an account of Asian American Christianity, I spend…

Jonathan TranOctober 22, 2019

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

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

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

In God’s Economy, Racial Groups Are Not Competitors

(Post)Critical Political Theology and the Uses and Misuses of Whiteness Discourse

Cora Diamond’s Theological Imagination

The Ends of Anti-Racist Protest

Response to K. C. Choi’s Disciplined by Race

Moral Innovation and Ambiguity in Asian American Christianity

Assessing the Augustinian Democrats

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

Linguistic Theology: Completing Postliberalism’s Linguistic Task

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

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