Matthew John Paul Tan

New podcast episode on the Eucharist dropping Saturday morning.

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Vanity of Vanities — Awkward Asian Theologian Over the weekend, our podcast Awkward Asian Theologians dropped its latest episode , this time on the topic of celebrity. That is correct, Daniel and I leveraged our newly found stratospheric cel...

NEW POST: Vanity of Vanities

How does celebrity reformat how Christians view their relationship to the faith and to the church?

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE DROPPED

Matt and Dan turn to celebrity, especially the Christian habit of baptising it and calling it evangelisation. Platform equals influence equals Gospel. Simple math but suspicious theology.

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Secular Christians — Awkward Asian Theologian We have started the teaching term here in Vianney College Seminary , and I am hitting the ground running with teaching three short courses this semester, on top of my writing commitments. One of th...

NEW POST: Secular Christians

In what sense can otherwise believing Christians still speak and behave in a secular fashion?

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Our latest podcast episode on Catholic online celebrity this Saturday morning!

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NEW EPISODE DROPPED!

With a culture and a world sparring with itself like a bad kung fu film, our podcast Awkward Asian Theologians cheerfully wander into : world pain.

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There is No Identity — Awkward Asian Theologian By the time this post drops, I would have presented at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millenium series of conferences. Regular readers might know t...

NEW POST: There is No Identity

In what sense are our identities nothing? How does this help bolster the Christian life?

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A heads up that "Awkward Asian Theologians" will drop our latest episode "Does Everybody Hurt?", on the subject of World Pain, this coming Saturday morning!

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So Worth It: Bodies — Awkward Asian Theologian Over the weekend, we dropped our second episode of season 3, following our previous episode on racism. As Dan and I indicated in our discussion, the second episode is not unconnected to the first, t...

NEW POST: So Worth It

How might metaphorical conceptions of the biody help us understand the depth of our own bodies' meaning, worth and purpose?

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NEW EPISODE DROPPED

In this hot and saucy episode, Matt and Dan talk about the body.

They note how ideas of the body have arranged our thinking and in ways that are hard to undo.

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The Weight of Absence — Awkward Asian Theologian At New Year’s Eve, we may have been guilty of singing Auld Lang Syne , and exhorting those with us to forget old acquaintances and never bring them to mind. This is probably a desirable outcome in re...

NEW POST: The Weight of Absence

What is the metaphysics behind the feeling of something being gone from our lives?

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Blindfolded by Dental Floss — Awkward Asian Theologian Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome back to another year of theological content. We begin the year with the first episode of season 3 of our podcast, Awkward Asian Theologians , which dropped o...

NEW POST: Blindfolded by Dental Floss

What is the relation between racism and heresy, according to conciliar and papal teaching?

A postscript to our first podcast episode of season 3 of Awkard Asian Theologians

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New Year, New Content!

Coming this week, and new blog post on AwkwardAsianTheologian.com this Friday!

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NEW PODCAST SEASON OUT!

The Asians (no longer Matt and Dan) begin season 3 with a dash of racism, but as an issue finding its way into the life of the Church.

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New Year, New Season, New Episode of Awkward Asian Theologians (on racism), out Saturday morning!

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Before That Love Celestial: Incarnation — Awkward Asian Theologian The past two posts looked that the poignant couplet between distance and love, with Byung Chul Han’s notion of “the negativity of otherness” as the lens to explore how, as suggested in my first post ...

NEW POST- Before That Love Celestial: Incarnation (Part 3 / 3)

How does Christmas provide answer to the metaphysical question of love and distance?

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Before That Love Celestial: Collision — Awkward Asian Theologian This is the second of a three part series on love and distance . In a previous post , I looked at the planetary allegory to love as an illustration of Han’s concept of the negativity of otherness, w...

NEW POST - Before that Love Celestial: Collision (Part 2 / 3)

What is the relationship between love and distance?

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