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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

Articles & Essays Suffering Thomas Aquinas

Dying with Others: Reflections on Ataxia, Suffering, and Ken’s Mom

An article for Theology Today. ABSTRACT The author employs Thomas Aquinas's conception of divine existence in order to characterize creaturely being as contingent rather than necessary, and suffering as participatory rather than isolating. In this way, the article disputes both the narratives of necessity inherent…

Jonathan TranDecember 1, 2008

Articles & Essays Genetics Immigrants

Transgressing Borders: Genetic Research, Immigration, and Discourses of Sacrifice

An article for Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. ABSTRACT Utilizing Michel Foucault's conception of "plague" as a description of states of exception, this essay analyzes America's plans to genetically screen illegal immigrants. It argues that liberal democratic theory presupposes the exceptionalism of the…

Jonathan TranDecember 1, 2008

Articles & Essays Balthasar Vietnam War

The Vietnam War as Theo-Drama: Balthasar, Kenosis, and the Cold War’s Temporal Desperation

An article for Political Theology. ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the Vietnam War through the lens of Hans urs von Balthasar’s “theological-drama.” According to Balthasar, the unfolding of God’s eternal self-giving illumines creaturely temporality as desperate when turned inward, no longer desiring its eternal fulfillment but…

Jonathan TranNovember 1, 2007

Articles & Essays

Emplotting Forgiveness: Narrative, Forgetting, and Memory

Dying with Others: Reflections on Ataxia, Suffering, and Ken’s Mom

Transgressing Borders: Genetic Research, Immigration, and Discourses of Sacrifice

The Vietnam War as Theo-Drama: Balthasar, Kenosis, and the Cold War’s Temporal Desperation

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