christian moral action

Question 1

Bonhoeffer

Answer 1

• A christian minister in 1930s
• nazi germany

Question 2

germany at the time

Answer 2

• Hitler ‘embodied’ christian values
  -hitler removed jewish people from church and wanted to remove Old Testament because of the jewish influences.

Question 3

confessing church

Answer 3

• confessing church was born which rejected nazi ideology
• called christians to commit to discipleship and keep commands of God

Question 4

discipleship

Answer 4

• all christians are called to discipleship
• leave an old life behind and move into the unknown
• immediate and single handed obedience to God
  -we shouldn’t obey laws of land if they go against god

Question 5

civil disobedience

Answer 5

• open refusal to obey certain laws
• duty to god is more important than duty to state
• Not enough to keep out of Nazi regime, need to actively challenge injustice

Question 6

Bonhoeffer’s acts of CD

Answer 6

• he worked with the military in order to sneak disguised jews out of germany to Switzerland
  -apart of a plot to assasinate hitler
• Openly defied hitler taking part in illegal seminars and criticising confessing church for not doing the same

Question 7

Role of the church

Answer 7

sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7) - followers should be like ‘salt’ and ‘light’.add flavour to community ,leading exemplary christian lives.
- he listed good works we are to do and suffer including poverty, persecution and rejection

Question 8

bonhoeffers role in the confessing church and at finkenwalde

Answer 8

confessing church 1934
- the leader received pressure from hitler as he gained more power
- he lead illegal seminars for new pastors
FINKENWALDE
- experimented ideas to make christians a caring service under the idea of god
- the gestapo discovered the seminars inn 1937 and arrested students

Question 9

cheap grace

Answer 9

• deadly enemy of the church
• accepting gift of grace but not doing anything
  -just because
  -because Jesus died we don’t have to do anything for grace

Question 10

costly grace

Answer 10

• god sacrificed his only son for us we should make sacrifices for him

Question 11

sacrifice and suffering on the cross

Answer 11

• anyone who follows Jesus must pick up their cross and follow his path of suffering .
• a life of suffering for christ