"Hanna Reichel has written the best book on theological method in a generation. With rigor, creativity, and compassion, Reichel makes an often-dull topic exciting, even effervescent. This book accomplishes the seemingly impossible: it makes Barthians want to read queer theology, and it makes queer theologians want to read Barth." - Vincent Lloyd, Professor, Villanova University

"Method will not save theology. It can’t even save itself. But Hanna Reichel's brilliant book invites us to a better theology on the other side of methodological absolutes. Through careful attention to Marcella Althaus-Reid and Karl Barth, After Method diagnoses, undoes, and transcends some of the deepest divisions in the field of theology today. Reichel’s book is not just a preface to theology; it is a major theological event in itself." - Ted A. Smith, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Divinity, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

"Lucid and elegant, After Method clears and creates a much-needed space for creative play in contemporary theology. Reichel deploys conceptual design theory as a potential solution for all the ways theologians have (wrongly!) believed method can save us (or, at least, save our discipline). This approach is not to give theologians another supposedly stable method to copy but, rather, to invite us into a stance of epistemological humility. Reichel’s work will be cited by any genuinely innovative theological project for years to come!" - Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, Associate Professor of Contextual Education and Theology, Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology

"At a time of disciplinary ferment and self-scrutiny in theology, Reichel raises a series of searching questions about its purposes, practitioners, audiences, and effects. In challenging familiar curricular distinctions, they gesture toward a more integrated and pragmatic approach that seeks to serve the church more effectively. Replete with insights, this creative study deserves widespread attention." - David Fergusson, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

"Few, if any, in the academy today are equipped to engage the range of theological and theoretical interlocutors as Reichel has in this book. With great clarity and wisdom, After Method forges a groundbreaking path. Conversant in Reformed, Lutheran, queer, and Latin American liberation theologies, Reichel offers both an introduction to methodological differences across a range of theological perspectives and an exposure of their similar commitments and pitfalls. After Method further develops a theological discourse and vocabulary where queer ideas and lives are not fringe exceptions but are brought to bear on the most powerful and formative proposals in Christian faith. We need this book!" - Lisa D. Powell, Professor, St. Ambrose University

"Reichel’s After Method offers a virtuosic programmatic orientation for theology today to attend courageously to the reality of God. This is constructive theology at its best, infused with deep systematic theological commitments to the Protestant doctrine of justification and deftly deploying queer theory to discover grace outside the fixed walls of organized existence. With clarity Reichel challenges theologians to practice theology with an open-minded honesty and expansive vision for an ‘otherwise’ in our challenging times." - Christine Helmer, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University