Hanna Reichel

Profile
Hanna Reichel is associate professor of reformed theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Reichel earned their Dr. theol. (~ PhD) in systematic theology from Heidelberg University, Germany, after an MDiv in theology and a B.Sc. in economics. Prior to coming to Princeton in 2018, they have taught at Heidelberg University and Halle-Wittenberg University.

Reichel has authored two monographs and more than two dozen peer reviewed articles or chapters, as well as co-edited six volumes or themed journal issues. Their first book Theologie als Bekenntnis: Karl Barths kontextuelle Lektüre des Heidelberger Katechismus received the Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise and the Ernst Wolf Award. Their second book, After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology is forthcoming with WJK this year.

Reichel co-chairs AAR’s Christian Systematic Theology unit and is a member of the steering committees of AAR’s Reformed History and Theology unit, the Karl Barth Society of North America unit, and the annual International Karl Barth Conference in Switzerland. Reichel co-edits Brill’s Studies in Systematic Theology series as well as Routledge’s Karl Barth Studies series and chairs Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center for Barth Studies advisory board.

Reichel’s teaching spans doctrine and political theology. Their research interests include Christology, theological anthropology, eschatology, doctrine of God, theological epistemology, political theology, queer theology, and theologies of the digital. Reichel is currently working on two monograph-length projects: Against Humanity embraces critical interventions against core categories of theological anthropology from queer, crip, and decolonial scholarship in a work of conceptual redesign. Political Theologies of Omniscience analyzes contemporary surveillance cultures through a doctrinal lens, developing a typology of disciplining, performing, controlling, and replicating surveillance in conversation with historical debates on divine omniscience relating to eschatology, election, providence, and creation.

Select Publications

• After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology, Louisville: WJK, 2023.
• Karl Barth, in: The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918, eds. Rachel Muers and Ashley Cocksworth, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming).
• God as Omniscient, in: T &T Clark Encyclopedia of Christian Theology: God, ed. Asle Eikrem, London: Bloomsbury T &T Clark (forthcoming).
• Surveillance, in: T &T Clark Encyclopedia of Christian Theology: Theological Engagements, ed. Joel Looper, London: Bloomsbury T &T Clark (forthcoming).
• On Theology and Design, in: Journal of Systematic Theology 3/3 (2023), 1—18.
• Of Gods and Men, and Wolves: The “Other Question” between Projection, Colonial Imagination, and Liberation, in: Karl Barth and the Future of Liberation Theology, eds. Paul D. Jones and Kaitlyn Dugan, London: T&T Clark, 2023, 33-54.
• The End of Humanity and the Beginning of Kenosis, in: The Doctrine of Kenosis, eds. Keith L. Johnson and Paul T. Nimmo, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022, 289–309.
• Swords to Plowshares: On Doing Election, in: Stellenbosch Theological Journal 8/1, (2022), 1–14.
• A teologia política da “sociedade de vigilância”: Poderes autônomos, drones e o “olho de Deus,” in: Pistis & Praxis:Teologia e Pastoral 14/1 (2022), 88–114.
• Conceptual Design, Sin and the Affordances of Doctrine, in: International Journal of Systematic Theology 22/4 (2020), 538–561.
• Toward a Distributed Theology: Citizen Science, the Body of Christ, and Testimonial Epistemology, in: Ecumenical Review 72/2 (2020), 223–241 (co-authored with Thomas Renkert and Benedikt Friedrich).
• Worldmaking knowledge: What the doctrine of omniscience can help us understand about digitization, in: Cursor_ Zeitschrift fuer explorative Theologie 3 (2019).
• With Laura-Christin Krannich and Dirk Evers (eds.): Menschenbilder und Gottesbilder. Geschlecht in theologischer Reflexion, Leipzig: EVA, 2019.
• Theologie als Bekenntnis. Karl Barths kontextuelle Lektüre des Heidelberger Katechismus (FSÖTh 149), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015.