Pacific Coast Theological Society

The Fall, 2008 meeting will be Friday, November 7, 2:00 pm until circa 8:00 pm, in the Badé Museum at PSR. There will be NO meeting Saturday the 8th.

The topic will be theiosis.

Herman C. Waetjen, ``Incarnation, Theosis, and the Deliverance of Creation''; Response from Durwood Foster.

Huston Smith, ``Theosis''; respondent is Owen Thomas.

Patricia Codron, ``Theosis Revisited''; with respondent as Gaymon Bennett.

The autobiographer is Jack Crossley.

The Spring, 2008 meeting was Friday and Saturday, March 28-29:

Friday, 2:00-5:00, in the Badé Museum, discussion:
Jerome P. Baggett, ``Paradox: Tradition in a Post-Traditional Society'',
from Sense of the Faithful: An End and a Beginning of American Catholicism (forthcoming).

Allison Tanner, ``Culture Wars in the Religious Sector: Myth or Reality?''

Jay Feist, ``The Habitus of Tradition''

Business Meeting, happy hour, dinner, etc. as usual.

Saturday, 10:00 am - noon; place TBA:
Lynne Gerber, ``Making Christian Bodies, Raising Christian Voices: Parachurch Ministries, Cultural Capital, and Symbolic Power.''

Jaime Wright, ``Believing the Body: Religious Experience and Body Modification.''
Respondent: TBA

Last Fall's meeting was 2007, November 2-3:

from PANA, the Pacific and Asian North American institute
at the Pacific School of Religion:

Jeffrey Kuan, ``Reading Race Reading Ruth:
Toward an Asian-American Reading of the Book of Ruth'';
Marvin Chaney, respondent.

Fumitaka Matsuoaka, ``The Wounded Soul Yet to be Healed: Imagining a Way That Holds People Together -- An Asian-American Theological Conversation.'' Respondent was Herman Waetjen.

Rachel Bundang, ``The Limits of Context:
An APA Feminist Reading of Womanist Themes'';
respondent was Anne Wire.

Timothy Tseng, ``Asian American Religions'';
respondent was Durwood Foster.

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Past Programs

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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 (and have not in recent memory). Here are the dates:

year    Easter date             PCTS Spring             PCTS Fall 
2008       3-23                 March 28-29             November 7-8
2009       4-12                 April 17-18             November 6-7
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

An algorithm in C for calculating the date of Western Easter:

/* ----------------------------------------------------------------
 * gregorianEaster sets the date of easter; 
 *	from the _Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac_, 
 *	ed. P. Kenneth Seidelmann (Mill Valley, CA: University Science Books), p. 581-582
 *	It is the work of the US Naval and Royal Greenwich Observatories, 
 *		the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Bureau des Longitudes.
 * The Explanatory Supplement credits Oudin (1940); my recollection is that this code
 *	has been (re-) published by others more recently.
 *	Any errors are the responsibility of Andrew Porter.  
 * All variables are integers, 
 *	and the remainders of all divisions are discarded.
 * This has FORTRAN-style arguments: the first argument, the year, 
 *      is input to the routine;
 *      the second and third arguments are POINTERS to where the routine
 *      should set the month and day values
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------
 */

void
gregorianEaster( year, month, day )
int year;
int *month;
int *day;
{
  int c, n, k, i, j, el;

  c = year / 100;
  n = year - 19*(year/19);
  k = (c-17)/25;
  i = c - c/4 - (c-k)/3 + 19*n + 15;
  i = i - 30*(i/30);
  i = i - (i/28) * (1 - (i/28) * (29/(i+1)) * ((21-n)/11));
  j = year + year/4 + i + 2 - c + c/4;
  j = j - 7*(j/7);
  el = i - j;

  *month = 3 + (el+40)/44;
  *day   = el + 28 - 31*(*month/4);

}

Correspondence address of last resort:

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

The Secretary is Herman Waetjen, waetjen -at- sonic -dot- net.
The Treasurer is Sharon P. Burch, spburch -at- rcn -dot- com.

Andrew Porter is the maintainer of this web page for the time being.
He can be reached by email at app -at- jedp -dot- com.
774 Joyce Street
Livermore, CA 94550
(925) 443-4041