In a collection of essays entitled The Church in the Struggle for the Gospel, Pastor Wilhelm Rott wrote an article titled “What Is Positive Christianity?”14 He found the entire program of positive Christianity a danger to the authentic expression of the faith. To begin with, Point 24 was “too vague” and left interpretation in the hands of the party’s organizations (p. 3). Quoting various definitions from Nazi sources, he noted that positive Christianity reduced Christianity to nothing more than “political Christianity” and social work, and that it omitted any faith content (p. 8).
