[Oe List ...] "Our only job is to teach RS1"

[Jaime R Vergara]

Bud, there is the poetry and there is the prose.

The prose would evidently be the teaching of a course called RS-I, and the poetry would be the teaching of the hell out of it.  One is a subject course, the other, points to an on-going process that was true in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.

I got my RS-I course in the ITI Seoul of '72; got the process without the name as a preparing law student who attended the Asian Christian Youth Assembly in '64 at the Siliman University of Dumaguete City, Philippines, and ran into the likes of DT Niles, the little book of AT Robinson, and the unsettling writings of Barth, Bultmann, Tillich, Bonhoeffer and the Niebuhrs.  That caused a shift from Civil Law to Canon Law.

Life as a process of consciousness asked me fundamental questions of identity, vocation, lifestyle, and covenant/community.  RS-I provided the theological discourse, and being a product of the Reformation and Vatican II, I was pleased with the course.

I joined the Order in '72, went on a year Retreat in '83, raised internal Order questions in '84, and was asked to leave in '86.

Do I teach RS-1?  The hell if I do anything else!  But in China sans the theological luggage.  Curious if anyone else is in a similar journey.

Brings me back to Bud.  Did you get RS-oned before you unlooped?



j'aime la vie



-----Original Message-----
From: Bud Tillinghast <rev.bud at mac.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sun, Mar 4, 2012 9:19 pm
Subject: [Oe List ...] "Our only job is to teach RS1"




On 16 Feb 2012, at 10:28, David Walters wrote:



When I walked into Room A for the first time in the summer of '70 somebody was up front talking about the summer progam on the Local Church, which was to start the next week, saying "Our only job is to teach RS1 and teach the hell out of it."
 
We also sang Bonhoffer's  words to the Yellow Submarine.
 
What the world needs now is more RS1.

-David Walters



A couple questions from one who has been out of the loop for decades:


1. So at least in 1970 was teaching RS1 seen to be the only job (main job?) of the Order?


2. Was a decision made at some point to no longer see RS1 as the only job (main job) of the Order? When would this have been and for what reason?


3. When was the last RS1 taught? What replaced it and why was that?


4. Are there some of you on this list or the other one that have never taken RS1?


5. Do others feel that "What the world needs now is more RS1?


Thanks for any reflections,


Bud



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