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Hanna Reichel is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and holds a research fellowship at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. An internationally renowned scholar and widely sought speaker, Reichel has previously taught at Heidelberg University and Halle-Wittenberg University in Germany and the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht.
Reichel’s areas of interest span Christian doctrine and political theology, with special interests in Christology, theological anthropology, eschatology, the doctrine of God, theological method and critical epistemologies. Reichel’s first book, Theologie als Bekenntnis: Karl Barths kontextuelle Lektüre des Heidelberger Katechismus reframes Barth as a contextual theologian through his repeated engagements with this Reformed confession over the course of his life. The book received the Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise and the Ernst Wolf Award. Reichel’s second book, After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology has been widely celebrated for building bridges between Queer-liberationist and Reformed-Systematic sensibilities, as well as constructively introducing design theory into conversations about theological method. Reichel’s newest book, For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional is directed at a wider audience, offering a timely resource for ordinary Christians seeking to live faithfully in extraordinary times of societal upheaval and political fragility.
Reichel is currently working on two monograph-length projects: Against Humanity takes a critical inventory of theological conceptions of the human being in light of anti-humanist interventions across a range of disciplines. Political Theologies of Omniscience analyzes technology through a doctrinal lens, bringing surveillance studies and AI in conversation with historical debates on divine omniscience.
Reichel co-chairs AAR’s Christian Systematic Theology unit and is a member of the steering committee of the Karl Barth Society of North America and the annual International Karl Barth Conference in Switzerland. Reichel co-edits Brill’s Studies in Systematic Theology series and Routledge’s Karl Barth Studies series and chairs Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center for Barth Studies advisory board. Reichel’s work has also been featured in public outlets such as The Atlantic, the Presbyterian Foundation’s Leading Theologically, and CTI’s Theology Matters. A ruling elder in the PC (USA), Reichel serves on the Theology Working Group of the World Communion of Reformed Churches and preached the closing sermon at the 2025 Deutsche Evangelische Kirchentag in Hannover.
Theological anthropology; eschatology; Christology; doctrine of God; theological method; epistemology; political theology; Karl Barth
For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025 [German translation: In Zeiten wie diesen: 28 Lektionen fuer das Christsein heute, Gütersloh: Gütersloher, forthcoming 2026].
Confessing Then and Now: 40 Years of Belhar, co-edited with Derek Woodard-Lehman. Journal of Reformed Theology 4/2025.
Zu einer theologischen Hermeneutik der Zukunft, in: Theologie der Zukunft, eds. Jan-Christian Gertz und Konrad Schmid (forthcoming 2025).
Karl Barth, in: Ford’s The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918, eds. Rachel Muers and Ashley Cocksworth with David F. Ford, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024, 140–151.
On Be/longing: Eschatological Mediations, in: Theology and Media(tion): Rendering the Absent Present, ed. Stephen Okey and Katherine Schmidt, College Theology Society Annual Volume 70 (2024). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 3–19.
After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology, Louisville: WJK, 2023.
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.
The Political Theology of the “Surveillance Society”: Lordless Powers, Drones and the “Eye of God,” in: Theo-Politics? Conversing with Barth in Western and Asian Contexts, ed. Markus Höfner, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2021, 169–189 [Portuguese translation: A teologia política da “sociedade de vigilância”: Poderes autônomos, drones e o “olho de Deus,” in: Pistis & Praxis 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).
Doing Christian Theology
Sovereignty? Between the Doctrine of God and Political Theology
What may we hope? On Christian Eschatology
What is the human being? On Theological Anthropology
Theologies of Order and Chaos
Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom
The Occasional Barth
The Theology of Juergen Moltmann
Reformed and Ecumenical
Feminist Epistemologies and the Task of Theology
Research fellow, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, ZA
Research fellow, Protestant Theological University, Utrecht, NL
Research fellow, University of Basel, CH
September 18, 2025
Institute for Christian Studies
June 17, 2024
The Atlantic
December 5, 2023
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