This day in 1962 (July 5) the famous American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr died. He wrote an important book Christ and Culture and in his work The Kingdom of God in America he criticized liberal social gospel teaching, describing its core message as: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”
Here’s a short bio: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Helmut_Richard_Niebuhr.aspx