The World Can Be Different: The Theological Vision of Dorothee Soelle (video)

Posted on December 12, 2024 by PLT Staff

On November 19, 2024, Professor Sarah Pinnock joined the UVA graduate seminar Theologies of Resistance and Reconciliation to talk about the life and thought of Dorothee Soelle.

Dr. Pinnock joined the faculty at Trinity University in 2000.  Her book The Theology of Dorothee Soelle is a stellar collaboration of essays  and the basis of her presentation this afternoon.

On the shape of Soelle’s thought, Pinnock writes: “Soelle’s mysticism and christology responds to critiques in modernity. God is not the explanation for scientific unknowns, or what Bonhoeffer calls ‘the God of the gaps.’ She also rejected the image of God as the ruler of history… Soelle proposed a nontheistic christology that opens up a vision of God in which God is dependent, and our actions represent God in the world. We are each unique contributors to the work of God in the world.”

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  • Date Recorded:November 19, 2024
  • Location Recorded:Charlottesville, VA
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