Anh Tran
Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology
Director, Asia Project
Director, Asia Project
Core Doctoral Faculty
At the GTU since
2012
(510) 549-5027
Research and Teaching Interests
- Interreligious Theology and Dialogue
- Cross-cultural and Contextual Theology
- Missiology
- Christology
- Ecclesiology
- Asian Theology
- Asian Christianities
- Jesuit Histories in Asia
Selected Publications
- “When Christian Devotion Meets Confucian Piety: The Doctrine of Three Fatherhood as Theological Accommodation in Pre-modern Vietnam” in Confucian & Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue, ed. Michael Slater, Erin Cline, and P.J. Ivanhoe (Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming)
- “Experience Seeking Faith: From Theology of Religions to Interreligious Theology,” in Christian Mission, Contextual Theology, Prophetic Dialogue: Essays in Honor of Stephen B. Bevans, ed. Dave Irvin and Peter Phan (Orbis Books, November 2018)
- “A Church of Mercy and Hope: Pope Francis and the New Evangelization” in Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter, ed. John Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang (Pickwick, 2018), 1-16.
- Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors: An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam, Oxford University Press, 2017.
- With Jonathan Tan, World Christianity: Perspectives and Insights, Orbis, 2016.
- “Jesus Beyond the West: Christological Conversations in World Christianity” in Jonathan Y. Tan and Anh Q Tran, eds., World Christianity and Global Theologizing: Perspectives and Insights (Orbis Books, 2016), 182-203.
- "Jesuit Contribution to Vietnamese Education: Past and Present" in Education For New Times: Revisiting Pedagogical Models In The Jesuit Tradition, Ricci Institute, 2014.
- "Inculturation, Mission, and Dialogue in Vietnam: The Conference of Representatives of Four Religions" in Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000, Berghahn Books, 2012.
Courses Taught
COURSES TAUGHT (4000+ level)
- Cross-cultural Christologies
- Theology of Religions and Interfaith Dialogue
- Asia Pacific Faith and Cultural Traditions
- Asian Christianities