Moral Rearmament
K. PRESCOTT and S. E. Turpin, "members of a Moral Rearmament team were certainly put, through their paces by E. K. Braybrooke in the 3YC discussion "What is M.R.A.?" Mr. Braybrooke asked a number of shrewd questions which the two men answered to the best of their ability. Everywhere in the discussion I myself came up against intangibles. We were assured, for example, that Moral Rearmament tactics had paved the way for a rapprochement between Communists and capitalists in certain parts of the Continent. This has not been the kind of news to reach the headlines, but on the other hand Christ’s own ministry and Augustine’s conversion, as Professor Butterfield reminds us, though ultimately far-reaching were not sensational events in their own time. When Mr. Braybrooke quoted St. Paul’s "We preach Christ crucified’ and was suddenly taken up with a "Hear! Hear!" was the jar I felt an irrelevant aesthetic thing? Or is there a genuine moral objection to a certain glibness in sales talk which is so out of keeping with Christ’s Passion that it betrays an inadequa'e grasp of the nature of the tragedy with which it is faced?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 10
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193Moral Rearmament New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 10
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