Moral Rearmament

International movement calling for ‘moral and spiritual renewal’, founded by the Christian evangelist F N D Buchman in the 1920s as the Oxford Group. It based its teachings on the ‘Four Absolutes’ (honesty, purity, unselfishness, love).

Later, as the MRA (1938), it became more involved in political and social issues, particularly during the Cold War period when its anticommunist orientation found a receptive climate.