Yes.
Does it slightly twist or totally deny the Torah?
It ignores the parts that disagree with liberalism. There are Christian churches like that, aren't there?
Yes...of course....look at the liberal branch of the Episcopalian denomination as an example with the ordination of a gay bishop. Not to bash a gay person but scripture has clearly defined requirements to become a bishop and being homosexual is not one. Christian liberals who ignore the tenets of the faith are not TRUE christians of the doctrine.
It's not a facet of the Progressive movement. It's a facet of the Jewish assimilation movement of the 19th century, that's been touched by democratic socialism and heavily influenced by it in the early 20s. It helped spawn the Progressive movement (or the New Left), but it's not a facet.
Simplified, it's a facet of what happens when a progressive religious movement (which it was) meets the modern world, tries to adapt, and is too focussed on the progressive/adaption part and not strong enough to survive as a viable religious movement as a result.
oh yes..most definitly there are many Dim "churches"
of conveinience, whose main tents seems to be that
God was created in their image, and is malable
and ignorable on any point of disagreement.