Friday papers will be by Henry Clark and Tony Battaglia, on Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, and Saturday by Chris Ocker and Owen Thomas, on the Reformation and Culture.
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 was Jack Crossley.
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.''
Jeffrey Kuan, ``Reading Race Reading Ruth:
Toward an Asian-American Reading of the Book of Ruth'';
Marvin Chaney, respondent.
Timothy Tseng, ``Asian American Religions'';
respondent was Durwood Foster.
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);
}
The Secretary is Andrew Porter,
app -at- app -dot- com.
The Treasurer is Sharon P. Burch, spburch -at- rcn -dot- com.