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Jonathan Tran

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

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…
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March 30, 2017
The Otherness of Children as a Hint of an Outside: Michel Foucault, Richard Yates, and Karl Barth on Suburban Life Articles & EssaysBarthChildrenFoucault

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…
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June 1, 2009
Emplotting Forgiveness: Narrative, Forgetting, and Memory Articles & EssaysForgivenessMemoryNarrative

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…
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June 1, 2009