Spring Meeting 2019
May 3-4, 2019
John B. Cobb, Jr., and His Legacy
Classroom B Now moved to Tucson Room at Church
Divinity
School of the Pacific (CDSP), Berkeley, California
Schedule
Friday, May 32-5 pm - Paper Session
5-7 pm - Business Meeting, Social Time, Dinner
7-8:30 pm - Public Lecture, John Cobb (Claremont)
Note: The public lecture is held in the Tucson Room.
Saturday, May 4
9:30 am-noon - Paper Session
Topic
The Spring 2019 Spring PCTS Meeting honors John B. Cobb, Jr. for his Lifetime Achievement to theology.For background on John Cobb, please read:
- Two-part article on John Cobb by Ted Peters in 1990 Dialogue "Theology Update" with a response by John Cobb (pdf)
- John Cobb, "Evil and the Power of God" chapter in
Cobb's God and the World , 1969. (pdf)
- John Cobb, The Christian understanding of sexuality, 1960.
- John Cobb, A personal Christology, 1962.
- John Cobb, Christianity as a religion, 1966.
- John Cobb, The future of American theology, 1975.
- John Cobb, Theology and economics, 1990. (With a panel including John Coleman, SJ, and Carol Robb)
- Judith Berling, Reflections on Cobb and the Christian response to pluralism, 1990.
- Ted Peters, The systematic theology of John Cobb, 1990.
- John Cobb, Dead Ends and Fresh Directions, 2000.
Paper Session - Friday, May 3, 2-5 pm
Philip Clayton
(Claremont School of Theology)
"Emergentist
Panpsychism" (pdf,
docx)Respondent is Mark Graves (Notre Dame)
Rita Sherma (GTU, Center for
Dharma Studies)
"Hindu Process Theology of Radical Immanence" () Respondent is Ahn Tran, SJ (JSTB)
Public Lecture - Friday, 7-8:30 pm
Public Lecture, John
Cobb (Claremont,
emeritus)
Held in the Tucson Room.Paper Session - Saturday, May 4, 9:30 am-noon
Ann Woods (GTU, PAOI)
"Running the Good Race with John Cobb: an eco-ethical marathon" (pdf)Respondent is Peter Hess (GTU)
Eco-Ethics & Economism (GTU)
Panel- Daren Erisman, Convenor
- Ted Peters, "Demythicizing the Myth of Economism for Earths Sake: John Cobb, Richard Norgaard, and the Common Good" (pdf, docx)
- Richard Norgaard (UC Berkeley), Respondent
You may register at the meeting or online via the PCTS registration page. Student members and nonmember attendees, please use the PCTS registration page.