Does "This" Look Familiar?

.....Liberal Theology had done much to disintegrate the theological integrity of the Protestant Churches. Activity in the field of social reform was taking the place of witness to the Gospel of Redemption.

Hmmm...does this sound familiar? Emergents perhaps?


And there were those who were willing to fill the void created by their own disbelief by political entusiasms....


Hmmm..does this sound familiar? New Christian Left perhaps (and Old Christian Right too?)


So, what is this author (credits at the bottom) writing about? He continues,


....enthusiasms for Socialism, or in the situation of 1933, for National Socialism. It was from these people that the so-called "German Christians" emerged.


Hmmmmm....very interesting indeed. Did you get that part about filling the void left by a "no redemption through the cross theology?"


From:
Franklin H. Littell, article-"The Protestant Churches and Totalitarianism (Germany 1933-1945)" from Totalitariansim by Carl J. Friedrich, editor, 1954, pages 110-111