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...downgraded the importance of willpower in dealing with such difficulties; Abraham Low may have put too much emphasis on it. But the members of Recovery, Inc. are proof that some will power, at least, plus mutual aid, enables them to cope. "There is nothing wrong with our character," Lucille Asmussen, a recovered psychoneurotic, told her group recently. "We have been inflicted with an ailment, and we have to endorse ourselves as often as we can. After all, no one is going to send us a get-well card...
...land of Luther, a top Lutheran clergyman is trying to lead his church back to recognition of the authority of the Roman Catholic Pope and to the restitution of much Catholic liturgy and theology-while yet preserving the Lutheran Church's identity. For this stand. Dr. Hans Christian Asmussen, 63, who now lives in Heidelberg, has lost his big former parish in Kiel. Yet the trend that he espouses is so strong that almost every German city now has churches where Lutherans can go to confession...
...group around Dr. Asmussen is called Die Sammlung (The Gathering), and it was born in his mind during his five-year wartime imprisonment by Hitler for rejecting Hitler's state church proposal. It has grown mostly since 1956, when, after his retirement from Kiel. Asmussen began to concentrate on the movement, which publishes a 16-page newsletter with a circulation (now 1,700) among Protestant churchmen...
...Sammlung feels that Protestantism must preserve its own tradition, too. Explains Asmussen: "One reason is that the Catholic Church steadfastly refuses to deal with the results of certain philosophical movements-I mean mainly existentialism-which make very important statements about the position of man and his relationship to himself...
...Asmussen has a wife and two children, yet he feels that Protestant ministers would be better off unmarried. "In times of crisis, such as we are entering," he says, "a clergyman's loyalty should not have to be divided between duties toward his brethren and care for his family. Marriage is a poor basis for martyrdom...