[Dialogue] wedgeblade in Apple ad

Marge Philbrook msphilbrook at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 15:57:06 EST 2006


My recollection is it wasn't one of the 4 theologians.  it was one that we
studied when we did back ground pedagogy.  He taught at Perkins, I believe
and was a new testament scholar and wasn't Albert Outler.  Anyone have any
ideas?
Marge


On 12/6/06, John C. Montgomery <monkeyltd at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> think is was Bultmann's paper on faith - did not the wedgeblade image
> emerge out of the RS-1 poetry - "make me a fine wedge moving into the
> future" prior to the God lecture - I don't have the poetry at hand to get
> the wording right.
> --
> John C. Montgomery
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> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Marge Philbrook" <msphilbrook at gmail.com>
> Who knows the name of the theologian who did the paper we studied with the
> image of the "no longer and the not yet" as the role of the church?  I'll
> like to try to find it in the archives if you know the author's name.  Marge
> Phibrook
>
> On 12/6/06, Adam Thomson <dmtmsn at language.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > From Adam Thomson, Dover England
> >
> > My recollection says that 1972 indeed was the year of the turn symbol,
> > and a lot else besides.
> >
> > I was fresh out of the '72 Academy and was attending one of Joe's "Room
> > E" gatherings when he laid out exactly what Wiegel referred to in his
> > posting on this. The memory is still vivid.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > At 22:50 05/12/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > The wedgeblade was the central image of the church
> > lecture in 1964--probably earlier. The turn symbol, as
> > Jim describes it came along with the turn to the
> > world--1972?
> >
> > Doris Hahn
> > --- James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, it is the anarchist symbol, much more prevalent
> > > in Europe, there have been some conversations over
> > > the years that ICA should change its logo because of
> > > those associations.  Technically, that one with the
> > > wedge and the circle split in half is the "turn
> > > symbol" which was created after the summer of 1971
> > > in reflection on the movie "Little Big Man" and as
> > > an attempt to state the dynamics of social change:
> > > Pro establishment, Dis establishment (the 2 halves
> > > of the circle) and Trans establishmen t, the wedge,
> > > bringing together pro and dis and moving them
> > > forward.
> > >
> > >   The wedge blade was the Ecumenical Institute
> > > symbol which old timers remember from the front of
> > > room A on the west side and was the main teaching
> > > image for the church lecture for the church as
> > > social pioneer -- in that sense standing between the
> > > no longer and the not yet, laying down your life on
> > > behalf of all, or something like that.
> > >
> > >   As my fading memory recalls, Gene Marshall's group
> > > in Summer 71 had a hand in developing that image.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim Wiegel
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