Han-luen Kantzer Komline

Professor of Theology and Church History | Western Theological Seminary

Han-luen Kantzer Komline is Marvin and Jerene DeWitt Professor of Theology and Church History Western Theological Seminary, author of Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press—paperback, 2023), and co-author, with Mark Noll and David Komline, of Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (4^th edition, 2022).  Her research focuses on early Christian theology. Many of her publications concern topics in Augustine or his relationship to other thinkers, ranging from Ambrose and Cyprian to Karl Barth and Marilynne Robinson. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Louisville Institute, the Augustinian Institute at Villanova, and the Humboldt Foundation. Her current book project, The Idea of the New in Early Christian Thought, analyzes how Christians of late antiquity conceptualized and defended the innovative character of the Christian faith. Dr. Kantzer Komline serves as a co-editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, as Theologian in Residence at Pillar Church, and as an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America.