Hannah Nation
Thesis title: Mystics and Public Theologians: Reading the Theologies of Sundar Sandhu Singh, Toyohiko Kagawa, and Watchman Nee in the North American Textual Community
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
BA in History, Covenant College (2007)
German Minor
Presidential Scholar
MA in Church History, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2017)
Church History Divisional Award for Scholastic Achievement
The Dr. David F. Wells Scholarship for Teaching Ministry
Responsibilities & affiliations
Research Associate, Center for the Study of World Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Managing Director, Center for House Church Theology
Memberships:
Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission
American Academy of Religion
Current research interests
My interests include textual communities, North American reception of Asian theology, the theology of the China's house church movements, and the intersection of mysticism and public theology.Past research interests
I have previous interests in the history of women and North American Protestant missions.Affiliated research centres
Papers delivered
“An Invitation to Global Textual Community: Reading Wang Yi in the Western Theological Context” Global Evangelicalism (Evangelical Theological Society Conference), November 21, 2024.
“Pursuing Textual Community with a Chinese House Church Movement,” Communication(s) and Mission (Evangelical Missiological Society National Conference), Online, September 17, 2021.
“Walking the Way of the Cross in Wang Yi’s Theology of Church and State,” Christian Doctrine Study Group (Tyndale Fellowship Conference), Online, July 2, 2021.
“‘He Will Make Me Peculiarly Useful’: Tracing Harriet Newell’s Language of Usefulness in the Missionary Wife Memoir,” Oral, Print, and Digital Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission (Yale-Edinburgh Conference 2021), Online, June 24, 2021.
“Grace, Suffering, and the City in the Theology of a Chinese House Church Movement,” Mission Amid Global Crisis (National Evangelical Missiological Society Conference at the International Linguistics Center), Dallas, TX, September 13, 2019.
“Converted to Usefulness: Narrative Patterns and Theological Context in the Memoirs of American Missionary Wives from 1814 to 1842,” Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion (Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School), Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 27, 2017.
Articles
“Converted to Usefulness: The Theological Plot of Harriet Newell’s Memoir in the Evangelical Textual Community,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History (December 2024).
“‘Favored as We Are’: Early Protestant Missions, Cultural Imperialism, and the Liberating Power of the Bible,” Priscilla Papers 30, No. 4 (Autumn 2016).
Chapters
“Pursuing Textual Community with a Chinese House Church Movement.” In Practicing Hope Missions and Global Crises, Evangelical Missiological Society Series, No. 30, ed. Marcus Dean, Scott Moreau, Sue Russell, and Rochelle Scheuermann. Littleton, CO: William Carey Publishing, 2022.
"Grace, Suffering, and the City in the Theology of a Chinese House Church Movement." In Practicing Hope Missions and Global Crises, Evangelical Missiological Society Series, No. 28, ed. Jerry M. Ireland and Michelle L. K. Raven. Littleton, CO: William Carey Publishing, 2020.
“Hopkins, Samuel.” American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, Volume 1, The Colonial Era to the Civil War, ed. Gary S. Smith. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020.
“Missions to Native Americans.” American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, Volume 1, The Colonial Era to the Civil War, ed. Gary S. Smith. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020.
Brent Fulton, Hannah Nation, Xiyi Yao. “China.” In World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, ed. Todd Johnson and Gina Zurlo. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Books
Reign of Heaven: Prayers of Chinese House Church (working title). Hannah Nation, Ryan Zhang, eds. Alicia Akins, transl. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press. (forthcoming)
Wang Yi and others. Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement. Hannah Nation and J.D. Tseng., eds. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022.
Faith in the Wilderness: Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church. Hannah Nation and Simon Liu, eds. Bellingham, WA: Kirkdale Press, 2022.