[Oe List ...] Geneva offices

[Adam Thomson]

Comment from the sidelines, from Adam Thomson, Brussels

Re the Geneva Offices - that's a tremendous thing you are doing, David, 
making them availble again to us all. Just what this site is all about, I 
think.

When you eventually publish in PDF, Is there any chance of throwing in the 
Daily Office and House Church sheets as well? That, for me, would complete 
the set.

Thanks for Kroeger, Maguire, you and others concerned for all you are doing.

Love Adam

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At 17:24 07/07/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Between Dick Kroeger and Richard Maguire I now have a complete set of the
>five original Geneva Offices. It will be a while, but in due course they
>will come to you as a PDF file to use, save or toss.
>
>I'd like to have anyone who knows anything about the details of their
>creation send notes. Richard wrote:
>
> > Here's Geneva #5. As it happens, I was at the 1963 YMCA Lake Geneva 
> conference
> > the Offices were created for, and saved the manual, which included the
> > offices. So this is about as original as you can get. I appreciated the
> > content of the papers, but like most of the rest of the participants 
> rebelled
> > against the top-down, we know best style, talking about action but not 
> having
> > done any  (they'd just moved into the West Side a month before I 
> believe). So
> > I kept the manual, and read "Sickness unto Death" that summer. What a 
> surprise
> > to me to meet up with the Whites and Bergdalls in Omaha 11 years later and
> > find such a stylistic shift that didn't lose the essence. Not only that but
> > the most useful and theologically grounded methods I ever encountered. 
> Life is
> > always surprising, giving shock, awe, humiliation and joy.  Obviously the
> > event meant a lot to me, since I kept the manual. The material was 
> really good
> > and we had a great time rebelling.
>
>Can anyone expand on these notes and/or add any clarity about the beginnings
>of the Local Church Experiment Genevas that had 'LC' on them?
>
>Thanks for any and all feedback.
>
>David Dunn
>
>
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