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Frank Buchman found a new society when he returned to the United States in the spring of 1919. The social upheavals of the Great War had changed the country’s economy, politics, religion, and social relations. The Victorian culture he left behind had become modern America. Flappers and philosophers had replaced the temperance advocates and evangelical preachers he knew in 1914.
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C. Irving Benson, The Eight Points of the Oxford Group: An Exposition for Christians and Pagans (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1936), xiv.
S.M. Shoemaker, Jr., Children of The Second Birth: Being a Narrative of Spiritual Miracles in a City Parish (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1927), 10.
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures From the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), ix.
Paula S. Fass, The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977).
See George Marsden, The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
R.H. Edwards, J.M. Artman, and Galen M. Fisher, Undergraduates (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928), 244
Harold Begbie, More Twice-Born Men: Narratives of a Pecent Movement in the Spirit of Personal Religion (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1923), 126.
For this Establishment network, see William R. Hutchison, “Protestantism as Establishment,” in Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900—1960 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 9f
A.J. Russell, For Sinners Only (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932), 19.
Marjorie Harrison, Saints Run Mad: A Criticism of the “Oxford” Group Movement (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1934), 21.
R.A. Knox, “A Roman Catholic’s Comment,” in F.A.M. Spencer, ed., The Meaning of The Groups (London: Methuen, 1934), 80–81.
Speer, The Principles of Jesus Applied to Some Questions of To-Day (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1902), 34–35.
G.G. Poore, “Students Roused By ‘Buchmanism,’” New York Times, November 7, 1926, 6. 77 For more detail on the Princeton controversy, see my dissertation, “Disastrous Disturbances: Buchmanism and Student Religious Life at Princeton, 1919—1935” (Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1995). 78. Henry P. Van Dusen, “Apostle to the Twentieth Century,” Atlantic Monthly 154:1 (July 1934), 5.
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Sack, D. (2009). Men Want Something Real. In: Moral Re-Armament. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101883_3
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