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342The Virtues of Economic Rescue Legislation: Distributive Justice, Civil Law, and the Troubled Asset Relief ProgramMoral Philosophy and Politics 8 (1): 305-329. 2021.This study constitutes an ethical analysis through the lens of distributive justice in the case of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which was enacted in the midst of the Great Recession of 2007–2009. It begins by engaging with the visions of justice constructed by John Rawls and Robert Nozick, using their insights to locate the injustices of TARP according to their moral imaginations. However, this study argues that Rawls’ and Nozick’s theories of justice primarily envision the nature o…Read more
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223Catholicity Under Heaven: Reformed Ecclesiology and Chinese Visions of CosmopolitanismEcclesiology 17 (1): 51-71. 2021.Reformed catholicity suffers from a fragility that causes it to easily fragment over comparatively small differences. This study wagers that an important resource that can be useful for addressing this problem is the Chinese philosophy of tianxia. The article introduces the idea of a ‘Reformed catholicity under Heaven’ by placing a more liberal interpretation of tianxia in conversation with the problems in Reformed approaches to the church’s catholicity. In doing so, the article demonstrates tia…Read more
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184The Accra Confession as Dangerous Memory: Reformed Ecclesiology, the Ecological Crisis, and the Problem of CatholicityReligions 11 (7): 1-17. 2020.This study presents the Accra Confession as a theological response to the ecological crisis from a Reformed perspective while also addressing its critical weakness, namely the problem of universality in both Reformed ecclesiology and global approaches to ecological destruction. Because of a fragile universality, both Reformed churches and global institutions find it difficult to agree on a concrete plan to address climate change. Theologically, this difficulty arrives not primarily from disagree…Read more
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155Hacking into the Church Mainframe: A Theological Engagement of the Post-Informational WorldPrinceton Theological Review 17 (43): 81-90. 2010.Is Web 2.0 and its related communications technology ethically neutral? With the exception of obvious ills, do they indeed have very few, if any, ethical drawbacks? Even before the internet underwent its evolutionary ascension, computer engineers and philosophers have given some thought to these questions. Few have taken such insights and applied them to the life of the church. How does the church make use of such technologies? How has the church abused it? And, most importantly, what is the chu…Read more
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151Forgiving from Liminal Space: Locating Asian American Theologies of ForgivenessSociety of Asian North American Christian Studies Journal 4 (2012-2013): 133-150. 2012.Conflicts abound in Asian American churches between different groups. This study articulates a theological location of forgiveness that speaks to those conflicts. In particular, it situates forgiveness in the liminal space between what Homi K. Bhabha describes as "domains of difference" that define different generational or ethnic groups within Asian American churches. Yet the possibility of forgiveness is enacted only when both sides of a conflict are willing to move from those domains into lim…Read more
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132The Business of Double-Effect: The Ethics of Bankruptcy Protection and the Principle of Double-EffectJournal of Religion and Business Ethics 4 (11): 1-25. 2020.After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, most legacy airlines filed for bankruptcy protection as a way to cut costs drastically, with the exception of American Airlines. This article applies the Principle of Double-Effect to the act of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for reasons of management strategy, in particular, cost-cutting. It argues that the Principle can be a useful tool for discerning the ethicality of the action, and demonstrates the usefulness by proposing three…Read more
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13A New Reformed Catholicity: Catholicity and Confessing in Reformed EcclesiologyInterreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology 3 (1-2): 164-182. 2019.Reformed ecclesiology suffers from a lack of a concrete sense of catholicity, a lack that easily shatters unity in the church. This article broadly sketches a way in which Reformed confessions and the practice of confessing can help fill that lack, drawing from Robert Schreiter's The New Catholicity. By understanding confessing in terms of remembering dangerous memories, Reformed catholicity has the potential for enabling the church to be a unifying witness in an age where globalizing forces hav…Read more
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5From Accra to the World: Catholicity, Justice, and Inter-ConfessionalityReformed World 69 (2): 117-127. 2021.This article is a contribution to a festschrift in honor of Rev. Chris Ferguson's leadership of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. It engages the Accra Confession and suggests that the next step for bringing the Confession to bear on our current realities requires churches to consider what it means to be confessional and catholic. In doing so, it introduces inter-confessionality as a possible way forward, not only to address global challenges today, but how the Accra Confession can help f…Read more
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