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Dates: October 27th and 28th 2023
Location: Parnell Conference Centre, 10/20 Gladstone Road, Parnell, Auckland 1052
Key-note Speakers
Dr. Bethany Sollederer
Dr. Bethany Sollereder is a research coordinator at the University of Oxford. She specialises in theology concerning evolution and the problem of suffering. Bethany received her PhD in theology from the University of Exeter and an MCS in interdisciplinary studies from Regent College, Vancouver.
Dr. Kathleen Rushton RSM
Kathleen P. Rushton RSM is an independent biblical interpreter who was a lecturer at Christchurch campus of Te Kupenga – Catholic Theological College and is a Teaching Fellow at Trinity Methodist College, Auckland. Her research focuses on anticipatory readings of John’s Gospel which aim to accommodate both biblical hope and science’s unfinished universe.
Other Speakers
Dr. Bethany Sollereder, Edinburgh University:
Death and Animal Suffering before Humans: Rethinking the Effects of the Fall
Dr. Sarah Beattie, Wellington:
Driven from Eden: The Tree of Knowledge as the Tree of Reason
Dr. Kathleen Rushton RSM, Christchurch:
Participating with Jesus in Completing the Works of God in an Unfinished, Evolving Universe: Towards an Anticipatory Reading of the Gospel according to John
Rev’d Dr. Anne Van Gend, Bishop’s Enabler, Dunedin,
Falling in Fantasy
Assoc. Prof. Doru Costache, Sydney College of Divinity:
Creation’s Natural Mortality and the Fall: Patristic Perspectives
Dr. Joshua Wilson Black, Canterbury University:
Error and Evil in Peirce’s Evolutionary Theism
Dr. Emily Colgan & Dr. Aroha Rountree, St John’s/Trinity:
I te Tīmatanga/In the Beginning: An Intertextual Reading of Hine Tītama and Eve
Dr. Jay Matanga, Auckland:
Will To Knowledge: Sin as the Human Capacity to Judge
Dr. Christa McKirland, Carey College:
If Original Sin is Negotiable, What Isn’t? An Exploration in Non-Negotiables
Dr. John Owens SM, Catholic Theological College:
The Fall and “Modern” Philosophy
Rev. John Howell, Wellington:
The Choice in Genesis 2:15-17
Joanne Watt: Auckland:
The Necessary Fall
Ripeka Templeton Bijl: St John’s College:
Leaving Eden – Imaginatively interpreting the Genesis 3 and 4 Fall narrative as an allegory for Te Tiriti
Dr. Jonathan Robinson, Carey College:
The Biblical Evolution of Satan in Theistic Evolutionary Perspective
Assoc. Prof. Michael Mawson, University of Auckland:
In Defense of Fallenness: Retrieving a Relational Harmartiology in Response to the Climate Crisis
Dr. Martin Samson, Sydney:
Revisiting fallenness: a search for meaning in the world we live in.
Rev. Dr. Hugh Bowron, Christchurch:
The Three Offers of God: A Possible Alternative and Defensible Doctrine of the Fall
Dr. Drew Everhart, University of Leeds
Cursed is the Ground because of You: Flourishing, Fallenness and a Relational Theology of Land
Prof. Carolyn King, Waikato:
Meeting the serpent in a space-age garden
Emma Belcher, Topic coming
