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Group Conversions. Kreinheder has a passionate interest in Christian unity. He is the U.S. secretary of the League for Evangelical-Catholic Reunion, founded by members of Die Sammlung (The Gathering), a German Lutheran group that prays and works for the union of their church with Rome. This ecumenicism keeps Kreinheder from joining the Roman Catholic Church, which many Lutherans think he might as well do. "Individual conversions are not going to be the answer to unity," he says. ''When the move is made by a group, then we will have true unity, and that is what...
...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 would have Protestantism place more emphasis on saints and sanctity, especially on the Virgin Mary. It would underscore the sacramental character of German Protestant serv ices. "Luther never intended to bereave the church of her mystery," says one Sammlung theologian...
...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...
Theologian Max Lackmann, one of Die Sammlung's most articulate members, summed up the movement for a visitor last week: "We want to say yes to tradition but no to traditionalism, yes to the office of the Pope but no to papism, yes to the right of the church but no to legalism, yes to the praised mother of the Lord but no to Marianism, yes to the spiritual center of Rome but no to centralism and Romanism...