The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory (eBook)

Time and Eternity in the Far Country

Jonathan Tran (Autor)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
312 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-2413-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory develops a
theological analysis of the American war in Vietnam and constructs
a Christian account of memory in relation to this tragic conflict.

* An elegantly written reflection of memory and forgiveness, this
unique work explores the ecclesial practice of memory in relation
to the American war in Vietnam

* Questions how and why we choose to remember atrocity, and asks
whether it is ever ethical to simply forget

* Explores the theological categories of time and eternity, and
the ideas of thinkers including Aquinas, Augustine, and Barth

* Reveals broader insights about history, memory, and
redemption

* Resonates beyond the field of theological inquiry by offering a
broader analysis of war entirely relevant to our time

Autor

Jonathan Tran is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics in the Department of Religion, Baylor University. He has published widely in academic journals and is the author of Theology and Foucault (forthcoming).

Inhalt

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I Time and Its Discontents.

1 Our Time in Vietnam.

The Divine Kenosis and Being-Toward-Death.

"Our Time" in Vietnam.

"When Time Is Nothing but Speed".

2 Killing Time.

Boredom and Atrocity.

God and the Ordinary.

Part II Created Time.

3 Christological Time.

"The Detemporalization of Time".

Being and Time.

The Goodness of Death.

The Spiritual Life of the Age.

A Time of Idols.

The Fragility of Time.

4 The Sorrow of the Exile: Trinity, Memory, and
Return.

Trinity and Mind.

Trinity and Forgetting.

Forgetting God.

Desire and Return.

The Witness of the Martyrs.

Authentic Temporality.

Part III Memory and the Americans in Vietnam.

5 Saving Our Lives with a Story: Memory and
Narrative.

The Case for Forgetting.

Realism and Narrative.

From Paradox to Mimesis.

From Mimesis to Forgiveness.

Trinity, Forgiveness, and Gift.

Forgiveness as Gift Exchange.

The Gift of New Stories.

6 Re-performing the Dark Night of the Soul: Memory and
Liturgy.

Two Views of Liturgical Memory.

Liturgies of War.

Incomplete Killers.

Rival Liturgies.

God's Acting on Time.

"Out of the Night".

7 Eucharistic Re-membering: Memory and Politics.

National Memory.

Suspending Time.

Walling Memory.

Resurrection as National Mythos.

Depoliticizing Memory.

Superpower Biopolitics and the Possibility of Fugitive
Bodies.

Spectral Others in Beloved.

Ghosts and the Moreness of Time: Lillian Smith's Killers
of the Dream.

Tending Memory: Listening, Traveling, and Tabling.

Eucharistic Memory.

Eucharist as Traveling Table.

The Politics of Re-membering.

Soundings.

Index.

Rezensionen

"However, the insights of his theological analysis of time
and memory, and of the role of God's hospitality in and
through time, are not limited to theological engagement with
questions of war but are a welcome contribution to theological
reflection more broadly." (Dialog, 4 March
2014)

"This is an extraordinary book in a number of ways . . .
To have written a whole book on theologies of memory is in any case
remarkable." (Studies in Christian Ethics, 1 May
2013)
"Tran's book is a model for contextually grounded theological
analysis. Much of it is sophisticated theology, but portions will
be useful for professionals from other disciplines who work with
veterans, especially on spiritual issues." (CHOICE, December
2010) "Tran is at his best when analyzing the POW/MIA movement and
other stories from the war and the lives of the veterans. His
remarkable account of the other positions suffering of the Vietnam
veteran is among the most moving sections of the book." (Christian
Century, December 2010)

"Tran has created a genre of theological reflection that will
challenge our habits of classification. This is theology done in a
manner that matters; that is, it helps us recover our humanity. I
believe Tran's book, in time, may well become a
'classic'."

--Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University

"With the soul of a poet, the mind of a theologian, and the
complex commitment of a Vietnamese-American Christian, Jonathan
Tran's analysis is hauntingly, beautifully, profound. The book is
worth its price for several individual sections on their own; the
cumulative achievement is extraordinary and not to be
missed."

--L. Gregory Jones, Duke University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.3.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Challenges in Contemporary Theology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: contemporary theology • Moderne Theologie • Religion & Culture • Religion & Theology • Religion, Issues & Current Affairs • Religionsfragen u. aktuelle Probleme • Religion u. Kultur • Religion u. Theologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-2413-6 / 1444324136
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-2413-6 / 9781444324136