In 1933 the progressive internationalist, Victor Gollancz, published a new collection of Christian writings reflecting on the state of the world. Christianity and the Crisis presented, essentially, a colloquium on paper.1 The crisis to which the title referred was the crisis of the world itself. It was not overall a coherent statement, for the issues at work in it were many and diverse and the authors, drawn from a number of denominations, were themselves individualists. What defined this meeting of minds was a general presentiment that fifteen years after the conclusion of the Great War the world was still brimful of armaments, banking crises, industrial discontent and mass employment. It was not a world at peace; it was an age which knew injustice. In such a world the mind of a Christian could know no assurance. This book expressed a view of the age which was widely held by Christians at the beginning of 1933. It also insisted that they must confront the world crisis and, in some manner, respond to it. It showed that what now happened in Germany occurred within an identifiable context of doubt and pessimism.