This is wonderful. Is it possible there is such richness awaiting us also in the years ahead? On the theme of winging it, I am going to suggest this conversation which Gordon reported may have been more about formation of the Detroit regional cadre than actual curriculum? Jim Wiegel “A revolution is on the horizon: a wholesale transformation of the world economy and the way people live.” Fred Krupp
On Apr 28, 2021, at 2:48 PM, W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Forgive me for winging it, but I haven't had time to dig out all of the source archives. RS-1, as a 44-hour weekend construct, evolved from the Religious Studies curriculum at the Christian Faith & Life Community in Austin. For the best info on this evolution, consult Lingo or Sarah Buss or others from that era. I was never there, but I have seen the curriculum. (And from 1958 on I scarfed up the Letter to Laymen!) 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. What became RS-1 was divided into:
CS-1A: the Meaning of Human Existence or the Problem of Faith: An examination of the form in which the question of faith is raised in the modern age and the various ways in which 20th century man is present to his existence. and CS-1B: The Modes of Human Existence or the Christian Life as Faith/Unfaith 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.
There was a lecture followed by a seminar the following week. I think! For example, the Question of G-O-D lecture followed by the Bultmann seminar. The Christ Event lecture was followed by the Tillich seminar. There was a Christ Story lecture, followed by a seminar on John Knox's 'The Event and the Story.' These two lectures got collapsed into one for the RS-1 weekend, and the Knox paper was a handout. There was also a lecture on Unfaith, followed by a seminar on S.K.'s 'Sickness Unto Death'. These got dropped for the RS-1 weekend to permit adding the movie and conversation on Saturday night. The S.K. paper became a handout.
So I could imagine that Tillich vs. Knox might have been discussed at some point. Or not! I wasn't there. But Knox, BTW, was my professor @ UTS back in the Dark Ages.
Marshall
CS-1A&B @ CFLC was 'Community Studies', not 'Cultural Studies'.
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