Word: clergyman
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...Although the clergyman doesn't set out to cure and the psychiatrist doesn't set out to save, they both want to help the individual to make a better adaptation to himself and his environment," he went...
...qualified this statement somewhat, however, by admitting that, while a clergyman would probably consider an intense religious experience as being the result of divine revelation, the psychiatrist would be more inclined to regard it as caused by emotional influences...
...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...
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...
Died. Ulrich Haberland, 60, dynamic boss of West Germany's giant Farben-fabriken Bayer, a Lutheran clergyman's son and ex-Nazi Party member who in 1951 took control of the largest chunk of the Occupation-decentralized I.G. Farben chemical empire, by last year had boosted the concern to a gross of $786 million in 133 countries; of a heart attack; in Eifel Mts., West Germany...