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Bonhoeffer - Christian Moral Action Flashcards

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Specification for Bonhoeffer

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Duty to God and duty to the State
Church as a community and a source of spiritual guidance
Cost of discipleship

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Context for Bonhoeffer

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Nazi Germany (third reich)
Hitlers totalitarian State

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What was the Aryan Paragraph

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Only those of Aryan descent (no Jewish parents/grandparents) could be employed in the civil service/clergy

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What was the Abwehr

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German Military Intelligence Organisation 1921-1944. Several members were involved in resistance movements

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What were the German Christians (Deutsche Christen)

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Existed 1932-1945
Ludwig Müller lead as Reich Bishop, and attempted to make the CHURCH and INSTRUMENT OF NAZISM
Opposed by Confessing Church

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Who was Bonhoeffer

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German Lutheran Pastor who opposed the Nazi regime

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Where did Bonhoeffer go in 1930 that affected his beliefs

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America, influenced by the bottom up theology

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What did Bonhoeffer do in 1933 that led to him being banned from public speaking

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In a radio broadcast, criticises Hitler being a misleader and the idea of worshiping an earthly idol as Hitler was.

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When was Bonhoeffer joining the Abwehr after returning to Germany

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1939

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What is worse than doing evil is…

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Being evil
- Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

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Silence in the face of evil is evil: God will not hold us guiltless…

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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
- Bonhoeffer

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Cheap Grace is Grace without discipleship, Grace without the cross…

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Grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate
- Bonhoeffer

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What did Nazis do to the Protestant Church in Germany

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Combined Christianity and National Socialism, excluding those they deem impure and encouraging submission to Hitler

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What is the name of the Church that opposed the Nazification of the Church

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Confessing Church

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What are the two Kingdoms according to Martin Luther

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The Spiritual Kingdom (governed by the Church)
The Political Kingdom (governed by the state)
BOTH ORDAINED BY GOD

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Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar…

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And give back to God what belongs to God.
- Mark 12:17

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Let everyone be subject to governing authorities, for there is…

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No authority except that which God has established
- Romans 13:1

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What did Bonhoeffer feel about the two kingdoms

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Too much power was given to the state, undermining the purpose of Christianity and the one true leader, Jesus

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Bonhoeffer on Duty to God

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A Christian is called to submit themselves to the call of Jesus

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One act of obedience is worth…

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A hundred sermons
- Bonhoeffer

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How does Bonhoeffer justify civil disobedience

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Ensuring the state acts in accordance to God’s will NOT making a Christian state.
Nazism required Christians to be disobedient to the state

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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice…

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We are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself
- Bonhoeffer

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How did Bonhoeffer lead by example

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Banned from public speaking, sacrificed his success for his morals (desired to be a theologian since youth)

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What is suffering disobedience

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Having to embrace suffering to enforce change (doing something that seems sinful)

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Example of Bonhoeffer’s suffering disobedience

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Planning tyrannicide may be a Christian duty but is NOT AN EASY, SINLESS TASK

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What must we remember about Bonhoeffer’s teachings on disobedience

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It is not easy and it is sinful. Only God can judge if the actions were moral.
INTENT DOESNT MAKE SINFUL ACTIONS GOOD

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What is a bottom up theology

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Puts God’s protection of the oppressed over the state

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What does Bonhoeffer believe is more important than duty to the state

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Duty to God

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What is a large issue with Bonhoeffer’s teachings

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The context of extreme Nazi Germany is unique, are teachings developed through that applicable to everyone else?

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What is a large issue with Bonhoeffer’s teachings

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The context of extreme Nazi Germany is unique, are teachings developed through that applicable to everyone else?

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What did Bonhoeffer see a true leader as

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  • Pointing to God as ultimate leader and guides others to do so
  • Encourages followers not to idolise them, but to focus on God
  • Encourages a Christian diet
  • Keeps Jesus and the Bible central
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Who did Bonhoeffer believe showed the ultimate leader

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Jesus Christ, God incarnate
He is the way to God and reconnected us to God’s will (ULTIMATE MEDIATOR)

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What is Discipleship about

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Doing God’s will through following Jesus above anyone else which can mean disobeying the state

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When does Bonhoeffer say we will know the will of God

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In the moment of action

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How is a Christian’s awareness of their conscience formed

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By living a good Christian life with Jesus and the Bible at the heart of it

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Why would Bonhoeffer have rejected Joseph Fletcher’s approach to love

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Ethics are communal not individual
Love is understood by knowing Jesus, the revelation of God

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What argues that we can’t know Gods will

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Humans are Fallen and have a damaged connection/knowledge of God

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What was the Confessing Church

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A movement opposing the government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant Churches in Germany into a singular pro-Nazi Church

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What is religionless Christianity

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Christianity without the baggage of the past and contamination by ideological beliefs of the present

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What did Bonhoeffer mean by the WESTERN VOID

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A moral and spiritual vacuum that was vulnerable to dangerous ideas (such as National Socialism) to fill the gap

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How did B describe the modern Western world

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A world come of age

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Why did Bonhoeffer believe that Christianity had become meaningless

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It was dominated by middle-class Western ideals at the expense of true Christian principles.
The Church must adapt to this

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What is religionless Christianity (what the Church must become)

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  • free from the trappings of the past
  • free from the need to fill our search for meaning with new ideological beliefs
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What does Bonhoeffer refer to as ‘rusty swords’

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Metaphor for the outworn ethical attitudes the Church held that are no longer representative of societal issues

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Why did Bonhoeffer believe that the Confessing Church failed

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Didn’t go far enough to challenge the German Church

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What was Finkenwalde, formed 1935

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A secret seminary for the confessing church where they could avoid the Aryan Clause

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Why did Bonhoeffer establish community at Finkenwalde

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Biblical grounding of the early Church in the Book of Acts, communal life focuses on prayer and discipleship

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Why was life at Finkenwalde focused on simplicity and what did this entail

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Believed this would lead to right action.
Limited possessions, meditated daily, Bible central to lives

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What formed the focus at Finkenwalde

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Debates and lectures on the Bible
The Psalms of OT
BIBLE - WELL FORMED CONSCIENCE

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Why is the life at Finkenwalde unrealistic

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Requires abandoning jobs
Faith is a unique commitment to Jesus, not a community
Requires more knowledge than the average Christian

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What is discipleship

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Following the life, example and teachings of Jesus

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What is God‘s Grace

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Freely given love including the forgiveness of sins and the offer of eternal life
CANNOT BE EARNT/BOUGHT

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What did Bonhoeffer feel about German Christians and God‘s Grace

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They had lost sight of what it actually meant

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What does CHEAP GRACE refer to

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The wrong idea that God‘s Grace was given as a gift with no personal sacrifice OR that it can be purchased through good deeds and passivity

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What is costly Grace

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God‘s Grace requires a response of sacrificial discipleship. Total abandonment to Christ.

Acknowledgement of Jesus‘ sacrifice
’Picking up your cross‘ in personal sacrifice

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What does Costly Grace not entail

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The same suffering as Jesus, merely the acknowledgment that Christianity can be burdensome

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Suffering is…

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The badge of true discipleship

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What is the importance of solidarity to Bonhoeffer

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Serve those most in need and challenging injustices

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How did Bonhoeffer lead by example

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  • Donated money to Jewish families
  • Returned to Germany despite risk to stand in solidarity against the rise of Nazism
    CHRISTIANITY: ACTION

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