Jonathan Tran

Journal Article Theology Today · October 2018 “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 ... Full text Cite

Assessing the Augustinian Democrats

Journal Article Journal of Religious Ethics · September 2018 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 2004Democra ... Full text Cite

Linguistic Theology: Completing Postliberalism's Linguistic Task

Journal Article Modern Theology · January 2017 Full text Cite

Dying with Others

Journal Article Theology Today · January 2008 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 narr ... Full text Cite