Topic: Creating Your Own Theology in Light of Suffering

Presenters: Bethany Sollereder

Bethany Sollereder is a lecturer in science and religion at the University of Edinburgh.  She specializes in theology concerning evolution and the problem of suffering and is currently working on the theological aspects of restoration ecology.  Bethany received her PhD in Theology from the University of Exeter and an MCS in interdisciplinary studies from Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.  She is author of God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall and Why Is There Suffering? Pick Your Own Theological Expedition. This latter book, published by Zondervan (2021), is the first “pick your own ending” theology book! Dr. Sollereder was a presenter at the 50th Anniversary CPS Conference on the topic, “Pentecostal Meets Process: A Pluralist Model of Divine Action.” She was also a panelist at this year’s ORTline23 Open and Relational Theology online conference. 

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