<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpd668ba7yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="ydpd668ba7yiv8753886101"><div class="ydpd668ba7yiv8753886101yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px;">Forgive me for winging it, but I haven't had time to dig out all of the source archives.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px;">RS-1, as a 44-hour weekend construct, evolved from the Religious Studies curriculum at the Christian Faith & Life Community in Austin.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px;">For the best info on this evolution, consult Lingo or Sarah Buss or others from that era.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px;" data-setdir="false">I was never there, but I have seen the curriculum. (And from 1958 on I scarfed up the Letter to Laymen!)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">As I recall, there was an 8-week course in the Laos House, taught one evening per week (Thursdays) on the Twentieth Century Theological Revolution.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">What became RS-1 was divided into:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><b>CS-1A: the Meaning of Human Existence or the Problem of Faith:</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><center><div style="text-align: left; " dir="" data-setdir="true"><font size="3"><font>An examination of the form in which the question of </font><font>faith is raised in the modern age and the various ways </font>in which 20th century man is present to his existence.</font></div></center></div><div dir="" data-setdir="true" style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">and</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><b>CS-1B: The Modes of Human Existence or the Christian Life as Faith/Unfaith</b></div><div dir="" data-setdir="true"><font size="3">A study of the various ways in which man in the modern world is present to his existence in relation to nature and history. Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Camus will be the authors considered.</font><br></div><div dir="" data-setdir="true"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">There was a lecture followed by a seminar the following week. I think!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">For example, the Question of G-O-D lecture followed by the Bultmann seminar.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">The Christ Event lecture was followed by the Tillich seminar.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">There was a Christ Story lecture, followed by a seminar on John Knox's 'The Event and the Story.'</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">These two lectures got collapsed into one for the RS-1 weekend, and the Knox paper was a handout.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">There was also a lecture on Unfaith, followed by a seminar on S.K.'s 'Sickness Unto Death'.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">These got dropped for the RS-1 weekend to permit adding the movie and conversation on Saturday night.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">The S.K. paper became a handout.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">So I could imagine that Tillich vs. Knox might have been discussed at some point. Or not!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">I wasn't there.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">But Knox, BTW, was my professor @ UTS back in the Dark Ages.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Marshall</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">CS-1A&B @ CFLC was 'Community Studies', not 'Cultural Studies'.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>