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Knowing, Being, Believing. Haus Villigst was a typical farm estate, battered and sagging under waves of wartime billeting, when Hellmut Keusen discovered it in 1948. He promptly persuaded the Evangelical Church of Westphalia that this was just the place to try out a new idea...
...Keusen's ideas were born in the rubble of post-Hitler Germany, where he was working for the German Red Cross. A onetime director of Düsseldorf's City Hospital, Keusen decided that his country had suffered too much from specialists-tough Realpolitiker, spiritual flagpole-sitters, and thought-spinning intellectuals. What was needed, he felt, was to reunite education and firsthand experience of life and to weld both within the Christian tradition. Keusen, a convert from Roman Catholicism, set out to mold a new type of German youth "who knows something, who is somebody, and who believes...
...Right Perspective. To help him run Haus Villigst, 43-year-old Hellmut Keusen has two fellow directors, Novelist Willy Kramp, 44, and Labor-Expert Klaus von Bismarck, 40, great-grandnephew of the Iron Chancellor, and a U.S. couple, the Rev. John Healey, and his wife Kay, on missionary assignment from the Presbyterian Church...
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