Dr. Han-luen Kantzer Komline

Dr. Han-luen Kantzer Komline joined the faculty at Western Theological Seminary in 2014.  She is the author of Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2020; paperback edition, October 2023), which received the Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2020.  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.  She has also published on more recent figures such as John Calvin, Jürgen Moltmann, and Erich Przywara.  Kantzer Komline’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Commission (2008-2009), the Louisville Institute (2015-2017), the Augustinian Institute at Villanova (2020), and the Humboldt Foundation (2022-2023).  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.