The Founder of The Oxford Group Movement is the Rev. Frank N. D. Buchman, D.D.,* a Lutheran
minister, born at Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The Movement was first started in 1908, and its activities began among the large State Universities of America. It was first known as " A First Century Fellowship," or " The Group Movement." Outsiders dubbed it " Buchmanism."
In 1926 The Group Movement first definitely established itself in Oxford, where it had at that time a strongly organized headquarters and a band of full-time workers.
During a mission by a team of workers in South Africa in 1928, where it was remarkably successful, a Presbyterian minister gave it the name of " The Oxford Group Movement," by which name in this country it is widely known; though more recently the title " Moral Rearmament " has been adopted.
The Movement, however, has no official connection with the Oxford University; nor is it to be confounded with the Oxford Movement, or Tractarian Movement, which began, over a century ago, the Romanizing and anti-Reformation influence in the Anglican Church.