Buchmanism
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Origin of Buchmanism
1925–30; Frank N. D. Buchman (1879–1961), U.S. religious leader; see -ism
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The investigator: Walter H. Clark, a master at the Lenox School in Lenox, Mass., who is writing his Harvard Ph.D. thesis on Buchmanism.
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Last week The Churchman, liberal fortnightly, which has crusaded against Cinema Tsar Will Hays, "Buchmanism" and various Episcopal bishops,* was battling vigorously against the common cup.
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Nevertheless, the array of sponsors showed that what was once "Buchmanism" and is now The Groups has at last found wide favor in high places.
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To hear direct testimony, to see Buchmanism at first hand had they come.
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One of the tenets of Buchmanism is "Absolute Honesty."
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