bonhoeffer

Question 1

Religionless Christianity

Answer 1

Bonhoeffers idea that Christianity should get rid of old fashioned ideas and separate itself from present ideology’s.

Question 2

Costly grace

Answer 2

The idea that the gift of grace demands a response of true sacrificial discipleship total abandonment to Christ and to be Christ like in your attitude

Question 3

solidarity

Answer 3

The idea that Christians must be for others.

Question 4

western void

Answer 4

Bonhoeffers description of the state of the western secular world without Christianity filled with all kinds of dangerous beliefs and ideas

Question 5

no rusty swords

Answer 5

Bonhoeffers metaphor to describe the outworn ethical attitudes which the church has used and which now have no use today

Question 6

barmen declaration

Answer 6

a declaration that set out the basic belief of the confessing church in opposition to the Reich church which was strongly influences by Nazism. it was composed by Karl Barth

Question 7

Lutheran church

Answer 7

protestant denomination that has its roots in the work of martin Luther who sought to reform the western church to what he considered a more biblical foundation.

Question 8

discipleship

Answer 8

following Jesus’ teachings to live a moral life.

Question 9

finkenwalde

Answer 9

the religious community Bonhoeffer set up for the training ministers of the confessing church. it aimed to develop practical Christian living as a community of disciples and encourage Christian virtues most importantly self discipline.