Dr Bethany Sollereder

Associate Professor in Science and Religion and Wills Tutor in Theology
University of Oxford

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Biography

Bethany Sollereder is an Associate Professor in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford and Wills Tutor in Theology at Harris Manchester College. She specialises in theology, evolution and the problem of suffering. She is currently working on theological aspects of climate change.

Bethany received her PhD in Theology from the University of Exeter and previously was Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall (2019) and Why is there Suffering? Pick your own theological expedition (2021) and co-editor of the volumes Emerging Voices in Science and Theology: Contributions by Young Women (2022) and Progress in Theology: Does the Queen of the Sciences Advance? (2025)

Biography

Bethany grew up in Edmonton, AB, Canada. She received her PhD in theology from the University of Exeter and an MCS in interdisciplinary studies from Regent College, Vancouver. After doctoral studies, she consulted for the Templeton World Charity Foundation with a team at the Materials Department in Oxford University for three years. During that time, she joined Regent's Park College and the Faculty of Theology and Religion. She teaches on the science and religion papers, and specialises in the theology of evolution and suffering. She is also deeply interested in history and pedagogy.

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Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

Christianity-Protestantism, History of Religion, History of Science, Theology

Science & Technology Interests

Biology, Evolution

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