| Maria Chen,
 PhD Student (New Testament) My current research interest focuses on the theme of weeping mothers in biblical narratives in dialogue with contemporary Chinese contexts. I am particularly drawn to the speech, silence, and action of mothers who grieve (potential) losses of their children.
Educational Background
Concentrated Master of Arts in Religion (New Testament) Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA, 2022–2024
International Summer School German and Theology The Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Summer 2023
Master of Divinity The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, 2017–2020
Overseas Exchange Program Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA, 2018–2019
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- Criticism, Narrative • Feminist literary criticism • Rhetoric, Ancient • Synoptic Gospels
- Recent Publications
- Chen, M, Voluntary Childlessness as Resistance: a Cross-Cultural Interpretation of θλϊψις τη σαρκί in 1 Corinthians 7:28,
Horizons in Biblical Theology, vol. 47 no. 1
(January, 2025),
pp. 89-108, Walter de Gruyter GmbH [doi] [abs]
- Chen, M, Review of Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement, by Wang Yi and others, ed. Nannah Nation and J. D. Tseng (IVP Academic, 2022),
Ching Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture, vol. 22 no. no 1 - 2
(November, 2024),
pp. 165-176
- Chen, M, The Registration of Ginling College and the Role of Wu Yi-fang, 1925–1930,
Religions, vol. 14 no. 12
(December, 2023),
pp. 1503-1503, MDPI AG [doi] [abs]
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