Word: buchmanism
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...guidance" was his touchstone-a phrase so often on his lips that it seemed to many that he had invented the idea. God guided Frank Buchman to seek out the company of the rich and famous-an improbable prophet, ovoid and owlish, with a piping voice and a slangy sweetness-and-light that in the past four decades won him an earnest following. At first these followers were known as Oxford Groupers or Buchmanites, but in 1938. as the nations of the world rearmed for war. Dr. Buchman was inspired to christen his movement Moral Re-Armament. Stumping the world...
Organization Man. Blake's religious life at Princeton also had its traumatic side. Before Blake arrived in 1924, Frank Buchman-patriarch, prophet and founder (in 1938) of Moral Re-Armament-had swooped down on Princeton with what was later to be known as the Oxford Group, M.R.A.'s predecessor. Blake found the college seething with eager young men taking their friends to weekend "house-parties" to change their lives by "God-guidance" salted with public confession of teen-age sins...
...brother Howard, studying for the ministry in Princeton Seminary, was an ardent Buchmanite, and until recently worked fulltime for Moral Re-Armament. Gene mingled with the Buchmanites until one day a wire came from Buchman announcing that he had had "guidance" that Blake should bring John D. Rockefeller III to New York to have a chat with Queen Marie of Rumania. Blake wired back that this might be Frank Buchman's guidance but it was not his. "From then on," he says, "I decided to be an organization man-that is, to work through the regular machinery...
...rapturous cheers of 1,500 well-wishers from 62 countries, ever-beaming Ideologist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...
Some feel this reticence about admitting a resurgence of religion results from understandable self-consciousness about Oxford's identification with past movements, i.e., the Oxford Movement (Keble, Newman, Pusey), the Frank Buchman "Oxford Group"-Moral Re-Armament, the pacifism of the '30s. Whatever the reticence, churchgoing is at a new high level. "It's quite a relief," said one staunch Anglican last week. "Let them have all the bun fights they want. At least, nobody any longer believes that religion is the haven of anti-intellectual obscurantism...