Pacific Coast Theological Society

(2008-11-25)

Draft (new) PCTS web-site; unstable; changeable.

The Old Web-page (still the most complete and bug-free).

(2009-03-06)

What will become a Wiki for the PCTS.

(2010 Fall Meeting)

The Fall Meeting will be Friday and Saturday, November 5-6, 2010.

Papers by
William O'Neill, SJ, (JSTB),
Erin Brigham (USF),
Daren Erisman (GTU), "Hilm, Kenosis, and Tzimtzum: Power and Public Policy", and one more TBA.

(2010 Spring Meeting)

The Spring Meeting was Friday and Saturday April 9 and 10, at CDSP in the Tucson Common Room.

Joan Roughgarden: Animal Behavior papers and God, Science, Sex, Gender
Respondents were Oliver Putz and Tony Battaglia

Braden Molhoek, ``Undermining Determinism: Stuck Between a Rock and a Sandy Place.'' Respondent was John Braverman, SJ, of the University of Santa Clara.

The Saturday Morning session was a discussion of Mark Graves' book, Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul (Ashgate Science and Religion Series).

Respondents were Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Michael Dodds, and Andrew Porter.

Location and particulars:

General information

Program Notes

A map of CDSP, showing the Tucson Common Room, where we met. More CDSP maps.

Meeting info is also here, at the PCTS wiki.

(2009 Fall Meeting)

We meet in the Badé Museum both Friday (2:00 pm until 8:00pm) and Saturday (9:30 am untill noon). Friday, discussion of papers from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, followed by business meeting, happy hour, dinner, and autobiography; Saturday, Continental breakfast at 9:30, with papers from 10:00 am until noon.

The autobiographer will be Norman Gottwald.

Papers for the 2009 Fall Meeting, October 23-24:

Friday, October 23:

Oliver Putz, ``Do Apes Pray? The problem of Human Theological Uniqueness''; respondent is Tony Battaglia. (This paper has recently appeared in Zygon.)

Brian Green, ``Cognitive Science and Aristotelian Virtue: Nature and Telos''; respondent is Michael Dodds, OP.

Saturday, October 24:

Sheila Taylor, ``Original Sin and Narrative Orientation''; respondent is Herman Waetjen.

Jennifer Veninga, ``Imagination as an Instrument of Social Change: Soren Kierkegaard and Percy Bysshe Shelley in Dialogue''; respondent is Norman Gottwald.

Order of papers and respondents TBA

(2009 Spring Business Documents)

Treasurer's report: .doc, .pdf .

The PCTS Endowment at the GTU: .doc, .pdf .

Contribution and Pledge form: .doc, .pdf .

Proposal for revisioning the Society: .pdf, .doc.

(2008-11-25)

Future Meeting Dates

The meeting dates are NORMALLY the Friday and Saturday after Western Easter and the first Friday and Saturday in November. We would prefer not to deviate from the rule, but did for the Fall 2009 meeting, because it coincides with the national AAR meeting. The date for it was moved to October 23-24.

Here are the NORMAL dates:

year    Easter date             PCTS Spring             PCTS Fall 
2008       3-23                 March 28-29             November 7-8
2009       4-12                 April 17-18             October  23-24  EARLY
2010       4-4                  April  9-10             November 5-6
2011       4-24                 April 29-30             November 4-5
2012       4-8                  April 13-14             November 2-3
2013       3-31                 April  5-6              November 1-2

As of 2010-06-28, the AAR and SBL will be meeting jointly again in and after 2011, the weekend before Thanksgiving, and so the PCTS will presumably be meeting the first Friday and Saturday in November.

AAR/SBL meetings for the next three years are (2011) November 19-22, San Francisco; (2012) November 17-20, Chicago; (2013) November 23-26, Baltimore.

How to calculate Easter and PCTS meeting dates.

(2008-11-25)

Contact Information

Correspondence address of truly last resort (mail will wait to be picked up):

Pacific Coast Theological Society,
c/o Graduate Theological Union,
2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709

The Secretary is Ted Peters, [tpeters2ct -at- aol -dot- com]
The Treasurer is Sharon P. Burch, [spburch -at- rcn -dot- com].

Email to [info -at- pcts -dot- org] presently forwards to Andrew Porter; hopefully, it will soon forward to others on the executive committee also.

Andrew Porter is the maintainer of this web page for the time being, though that is changing.
He can be reached by email at [app -at- jedp -dot- com].
774 Joyce Street
Livermore, CA 94550
(925) 443-4041
Email doesn't always make it through the spam filter, alas; the GTU may or may not know what to do with mail for the PCTS, and the secretary may or may not remember to pick up the mail. Telephone is often best.

This page is hosted by The Diamond Lane, in Hayward, CA, www.tdl.com.

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