bonhoeffer

Question 1

obedience leadership and doing God’s will

Answer 1

costly grace is true discipleship and can only be achieved by having a single-minded obedience to the will of God, he condemns cheap grace

He strongly criticised leaders such as Hitler who placed themselves above the community, highlighting the need for leaders to serve rather than to dominate.

Question 2

justification of civil disobedience

Answer 2

BH justified civil disobedience. You have your duty to the state as the state is ordained by God. But, if the state negates itself and imposes unjust measures – it is not fulfilling the will of God and so it is justified to engage in civil disobedience.

Question 3

Bonhoeffer’s role in the Confessing
Church

Answer 3

Bonhoeffer was instrumental in the establishment of Karl Barth’s Confessing Church. He proclaimed Jesus Christ was the only true leader, not figures appropriating Christianity such as Hitler.

Question 4

Bonhoeffer’s own religious community
at Finkenwalde

Answer 4

Discipline
Community
Meditation
Brotherhood
Bible

dancing cats move brown bins

Question 5

bonhoeffer obedience quote

Answer 5

only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes’

the call to sicipleship is the call to obedience to the leadership of jesus christ. all christians are called to the discipleship and obedience to the leadership of christ

Question 6

what was the aryan paragraph

Answer 6

declared jews were forbidden form the church and exluded

Question 7

what was the barment declaration

Answer 7

decalred jesus as the true leader and established the confessing church.

Question 8

two types of kingdom did luther suggest

Answer 8

1. political, governed by the state and ordained by God
2. spiritual, governed by the church

Question 9

Reischkirke

Answer 9

HItler’s church based on nazi idoltry

Question 10

biblical quotes suggesting obedience to the state

Answer 10

‘give to caesar what is caesar’s’
‘blessed be the peacemakers’

Question 11

bonhoeffer book

Answer 11

the cost of discipleship

Question 12

bonhoeffer obedience comparison in bible

Answer 12

wanted single minded obedience to God’s will just as peter was compelled to in Matthew 14 ‘take courage, do not be afraid’

Question 13

bonhoeffer still relevant x4

Answer 13

1. christians still persecuted.
2. religionless christianity becomes more necessary as society becomes more materialistic. ‘spiritual corpses’
3. christianity is still being appropriated eg the russian orthodox churhc is used by Putin to enable the invasion of Ukraine
4. teaches orthopraxis rather than orthodoxy which is important in a materialistic world.

Question 14

Stanley Hauerwas on Bonhoeffer relevance

Answer 14

argued BH’s emphasis on truth was particulary needed in western democracy

Question 15

is NH relevant today NO x3

Answer 15

1. finkenwalde was short lived and BH was usually head. plus they lived far from commnity
2. BH circumstances veyr extreme, not as now
3. ethics focus on a single threat - threats are far more complex in modern western society
   4.many argue his end goal with saving jewish people was actually to convert them to christianity = he is not compatible with multi-faith

Question 16

fletcher exmaple

Answer 16

Mother Maria who gave her life to save a Jewish girl in a concentration camp.

Question 17

jesus mission to save quote

Answer 17

Luke 14 - he has sent me to set at liberty those who are oppressed.

Question 18

BH quote about chant

Answer 18

‘only he who cries out for the jews can sing the gregorian chants’

Question 19

BH proof of costly grace

Answer 19

valkyrie plot?
reutrned from new york in 1939 to be with community
helped multiple Jewish people escape from germany

Question 20

proverbs 31:8

Answer 20

who will speak up for those with no voices?

Question 21

example of duty to god over social duties bible

Answer 21

martha and mary luke 10:38 where as martha hurries to make preparations, mary sits at his feet and listens

Question 22

BH speech

Answer 22

21st jan 1934 gave a speech about proper leadership only a few days before Hitler rose to power. the sermon was on the prophet jeremiah who ‘was not eager to become a prophet of god’ and was humiliated and mocked violently for it.. he was talking of his own future that he felt llike the future God was showing him.

Question 23

BH key phrases

Answer 23

religionless christianity
spiritual corpses
Finkenwalde
costly and chepa grace

Question 24

BH puts too much emphasis on suffering YES

Answer 24

1. unique time - his theology came out of experiences that arent relevant to Xtianity
2. jesus’ own suffering was said to be once and for all and in palce of humans suffering for hteir sins
3. seems to ignore jesus rose form the dead to overcome suffering - no mention of hope

Question 25

BH puts to much emphasis on suffering no

Answer 25

1. emerged from understanding of the oppressed
2. suffering comes out of solidairty which is the approach jesus took
3. jesus called all people to follow after hima dn his suffering so the emphasis is true to the gospel message ‘whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up the cross’

Question 26

how did germans mininterpret luther

Answer 26

‘here i stand i can do no other’ = presence is enough NO BH SAYS

Question 27

injustice quote bonhoeffer

Answer 27

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Question 28

bonhoeffer book

Answer 28

the cost of discipleship

Question 30

quote about salt

Answer 30

‘be like salt and light’ = immerse and integrate into the community. from the sermon on the mount.

Question 31

rust swrods quote

Answer 31

‘no rusty swords’ = no outworn ethical attitufes

Question 32

james 2:26

Answer 32

faith without works is dead

Question 33

why was finkenwalde a flop

Answer 33

-isolated
-no women
-ww2 specific
-shut down quickly