[Oe List ...] Geneva offices

[LEPhilbrook at schreiner.edu]

Could you also sent it as a MSWord file or a RTF file (rich text format)?

Leroy Philbrook
Schreiner University
Institutional Research
(830) 792-7265


-----Original Message-----
From: David Dunn [mailto:ddunn at ica-usa.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:24 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: [Oe List ...] Geneva offices

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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