Bio

Nathan A. Finn serves as Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. His primary areas of expertise include twentieth-century fundamentalism and evangelicalism, the history and theology of revivals and spiritual awakenings, and especially Baptist history and theology. He is also interested in systematic theology, missiology, and the relationship between faith and culture (especially politics).

At Southeastern, Nathan regularly teaches the required survey courses in church history and Baptist history and periodically teaches specialized electives in Baptist Studies, American religious history, and the history and theology of spiritual awakenings. He has also led seminary-sponsored mission trips to the Czech Republic and Southeast Asia. Nathan occasionally contributes to Southeastern’s faculty blog, Between the Times, which he co-founded with four of his colleagues in 2008.

Most of Nathan’s writings have been in the field of Baptist Studies. For a list of his published writings, check out the “Writings” tab above. Nathan serves as associate editor of The Journal of Baptist Studies, serves as the church history and historical theology book review editor of Themelios, and is part of the steering committee for the Baptist Life and Thought Study Group of the Evangelical Theological Society. He is also a member of the Conference on Faith and History, the American Society of Church History, the Baptist History and Heritage Society, and the Fellowship of Baptist Historians.

In addition to his teaching and writing ministry, Nathan is an ordained minister who has previously served in ministry positions in several Southern Baptist churches in Georgia and North Carolina. He is currently an elder of the First Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina, where he teaches classes on systematic theology and church history. Nathan periodically preaches and teaches in other local churches and speaks at various types of conferences. He also currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Biblical Recorder, the official news journal of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.

Nathan has been married to his gorgeous wife Leah since 2001. Leah is a full-time homemaker and a contributor to a popular biblical womanhood blog called Prayer of Hannah. The Finns are the parents of three children: Georgia, Baxter, and Eleanor. Nathan and Leah are both native Georgians and graduates of Brewton-Parker College, a Baptist liberal arts college in South Georgia. Nathan’s hobbies include watching movies, enjoying Broadway musicals (the Finns have season tickets to a local Broadway series), listening to all kinds of music ranging from Allison Krauss to Mumford and Sons to Johnny Cash to Jars of Clay, and rooting for his beloved Georgia Bulldogs and Atlanta Braves.