David Balch

The Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary will be honored with your presence at the a Book Forum on Dr. David Balch’s latest book: Contested Identities and Images being held at PLTS on February 24th at 1:30pm. 

Balch’s book asks the question of how Luke-Acts participates in the ethnic, economic, and political debates of the first century CE.  Balch argues that it is political biography and history, narrating Jesus as founder of a community that...

You are cordially invited to attend the Fall Meeting of the Pacific Coast Theological Society (PCTS) on Friday, November 2 from 2pm-8:30pm and Saturday, November 3 from 9 am–12pm in the Tucson Room at Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

The theme is “How Should We Read Romans?” Utilizing the new commentary from Herman Waetjen (SFTS, Emeritus), The Letter to the Romans: Salvation as Justice and the Deconstruction of the Law, papers and...