Events

Easton Hall, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley

This event, held one hundred years after S. An-ski’s expedition through Poland, will explore the findings and ramifications of An-ski’s ethnographic work and the construction of a traditional Eastern European past.  Reception following lecture.

Co-sponsored by the 28th Jewish Music Festival.

Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Rd, Berkeley

Arthur Holder, GTU Dean, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the John Dillenberger Professor of Christian Spirituality, will speak on Religious Experience as Sacred Text at the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library's Annual Reading of the Sacred Texts.

What does it really mean when you tell someone that “I can read you like a book”? What makes the “book” of human experience into a truly sacred text? When does experience become a challenge to the authority of the text, or a substitute for it? This lecture will explore the complex relationship of religious experience to sacred text in the history of Christian spirituality, from the ancient period of stone tablets to the current digital age.

Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley
Lecture at 7:00 pm. A reception will precede the lecture at 6:30 pm.

WSR hosts the panel Envisioning the Future of Theology & Ethics: A Womanist Perspective