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Welcome to PCTS

PCTS is a uniquely interdisciplinary theological society that hosts a two-day Meeting twice a year in Berkeley, California for the purpose of engaging in critical exchange over a variety of topics. Papers are posted on this website and are read before each Meeting.

Meeting Descriptions: Nov 2-3, 2012, April 5-6, 2013, Nov 1-2, 2013

Spring Meeting 2013

April 5-6, 2013

Eternity and Eternal Life

Classroom B at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), Berkeley, California

NOTE: DIFFERENT ROOM FOR THE SPRING 2013 MEETING


Friday, Apr 5

1:30-2pm - Arrival and Registration

2-5 pm - Paper Session - Eternity

5-7 pm - Business Meeting, Dinner (Cost = $25)

7-8:30 pm - Public Lecture, Sharon Burch


Saturday, Apr 6

9–9:30 am - Continental Breakfast

9:30 am-noon - Paper Session - Eternal Life



Spring Meeting Description and Papers


Collaborative Activities

PCTS members Norm Gottwald, Jack Elliott, and Herman Waetjen have collaborated on the formation of The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice, which has published its first book Liberating Biblical Study: Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice.

Fall Meeting 2012

November 2-3, 2012

How Should We Read Romans?

Tucson Room at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), Berkeley, California


Friday, Nov 2

2-5 pm - Paper Session

5-7 pm - Business Meeting, Dinner (Cost = $25)

7-8:30 pm - Public Lecture, Mark Richardson (CDSP)


Saturday, Nov 3

9–9:30 am - Continental Breakfast

9:30 am-noon - Discussion Session



Fall Meeting Description and Papers


Spring Meeting 2012

April 13-14, 2012

Honoring Huston Smith: Mythology in Theology and Science

Tucson Room at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), Berkeley, California


Friday, Apr 13

2-5 pm - Paper Session - Relating Mythology and Theology

5-7 pm - Business Meeting, Dinner (Cost = $25)

7-8:30 pm - Public Lecture, Gaymon Benett (Fred Hutchinson Center for Cancer Research)

"The Making of Secular Salvation: How Myth and Metaphor Can Shape Laboratory Practice, and with it Our Shared Biological Futures"

Saturday, Apr 14

9–9:30 am - Continental Breakfast

9:30 am-noon - Paper Session - Myth in the Heart of Science


Note: Starting time has changed for Friday evening lecture and Saturday morning start time since last meeting. They are each 30 mins earlier (and have reverted to the times they were a couple of years ago).