Controversy
Buchman was a controversial figure throughout much of his adult life, and critics dubbed his movement as "Buchmanism" from the 1920s. In the UK his critics included Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham, and the Labour MP Tom Driberg who wrote an influential critique, The Mystery of Moral Re-Armament. On the other hand, Buchman was supported by figures such as Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Gabriel Marcel. Malcolm Muggeridge professed that for a long time he could not understand why Buchman caused such "extraordinary hostility", and later came to the conclusion that "in a libertine society any attack on libertinism is an anathema."
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