In 1934 The Barmen Declaration was adopted by Christians who opposed the German Christian Movement (the "Deutsch Christen"). They were pushing Nazi ideology that contradicted the Christian gospel. The statement was written largely by the theologian Karl Barth. It used scripture passages to reject six parts of the ideology of the Nazi Movement. The document is only two pages long and has been found to be so important that it is presently found in various collections of historic creeds and catechisms. It was the first national statement in German to reject Nazi ideology.