AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She earned two PhDs; one from Harvard University in music historiography and a second in social work from the Chicago Institute for Clinical Social Work. She is an Episcopal priest (previously ordained in the United Church of Christ) with parish experience since 1979 in Massachusetts, California and Chicago. She is the author of three books Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (Fortress Press, forthcoming Nov. 2003), The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response (Fortress, 1995) and Schoenberg and the God Idea (UMI Research Press, 1985). She is the former Director of the Center for Women and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and is currently the co-convener of the Theology and Brain Sciences study group of the Society for Pastoral Theology.