Buchmanism
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noun
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Etymology
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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Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity which contains many features of traditional excellence.
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Frank N. D. Buchman, instigator of "Buchmanism" among the young people of U. S. colleges, last week closed a "house party" of his adepts at Lake Minnewaska.
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Buchmanism is about 20 years old, a mere infant in the range of religious history.
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One of the tenets of Buchmanism is "Absolute Honesty."
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