Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Question 1

Who was Bonhoeffer’s brother and what happened.

Answer 1

Walter, who died in WW1.

Question 2

What religion was his family associated with.

Answer 2

Luthern.

Question 3

When did Bonhoeffer first envision the future of the Lutheran Church.

Answer 3

13.

Question 4

What kind of church did he experience in New York.

Answer 4

Black Churches.

Question 5

What was his radio show called.

Answer 5

‘The Younger Generations Altered View and Concept of the Fuhrer.’

Question 6

What made the Confession Church different.

Answer 6

Did not agree with Nazi claim only those of Aryan decent could be in ministry or church.

Question 7

Name of the Nazi Resistance part.

Answer 7

Widerstand.

Question 8

What did he call the Resistance in a letter to who.

Answer 8

‘The terrible alternative’, to Niebhur.

Question 9

Secular pacifism.

Answer 9

Non-religious view that history would eventually reach a state of non-violence.

Question 10

When did he join the Nazi Country Intelligence section of the Armed Forces.

Answer 10

1940.

Question 11

When was he arrested and then hung.

Answer 11

1983, 1985.

Question 12

What was the main message of ‘Ethics’.

Answer 12

• Christian and human ethics are different.
• Ethical systems based on ideaology are extentions of human ideas used to justify their actions.
• Christian ethics are based off the idea that humans are innately sinful and cannot be right or wrong.

Question 13

What did Bonhoeffer think the relationship between church and state should be.

Answer 13

The Church should keep the state in check, as the state can never fully represent Gods will.

Question 14

Mark 12:17.

Answer 14

‘Give to the emperor the things that are the emperors, and to God the things that are God’s.’

Question 15

Romans 13:1.

Answer 15

‘There is no authority except from God.’

Question 16

When does Bonhoeffer believe God’s will is clear.

Answer 16

“Only be clear in the moment of action.”

Question 17

What does he believe must be rid of to know God’s will.

Answer 17

Personal ambition.

Question 18

Why is he critical of love as a Christian principle.

Answer 18

As it would make morality a human principle and reduce God to a human idea.

Question 19

The difference between leadership and leader.

Answer 19

Leadership is an abstract concept beyond the person, but leader is specific to the person.

Question 20

What did the Germans do to ‘leader’.

Answer 20

Divorce it from society and make it perfect.

Question 21

Why did he justify tyrannicide.

Answer 21

Christians can disobey state when it does not act in accordance with Gods Will and action to ensure social order is necessary.

Question 22

What is his consolation for the sin of tyrannicide.

Answer 22

That God promises of forgive the ‘man who becomes a sinner in the process.’

Question 23

What element of Kirkegaard’s philosophy does he use.

Answer 23

That humans can, in extreme situations, only act out of despair, but in faith and hope.

Question 24

‘The Western void.’

Answer 24

The vacum in society opened which allows for dangerous beliefs when Christianity was lost.

Question 25

Religionless Christianity.

Answer 25

Christianity which doesnt have the baggage of the past or ideological beliefs.

Question 26

‘No rusty swords.’

Answer 26

Metaphor describing outworn ethical attitudes used by the Church which are no longer useful.

Question 27

Aryan Paragraph (1934).

Answer 27

Removed all clergy not from Aryan descent.

Question 28

Barmen Declaration.

Answer 28

Christianities primary duty is to Christ and that they should reject ay teachings not revealed through Christ.

Question 29

Who produced the Barmen Declaration (1934).

Answer 29

Karl Barth at a Confession Church meeting.

Question 30

Ecumenical theology.

Answer 30

Bonhoffers theology focusing on unity and against nationalism.

Question 31

What community did Bonhoeffer set up.

Answer 31

Finkelwalde.

Question 32

Main features practised at Finkenwalde.

Answer 32

• Discipline.
• Meditation.
• Bible.
• Brotherhood.
• Community.

Question 33

Himmler Decree (1937).

Answer 33

Criminalised the teaching of Confessing Church ministers.

Question 34

What did Barth teach Bonhoeffer.

Answer 34

• Christianity cannot be an abstract system of human thought.
• God reveals Himself to us as he chooses.

Question 35

What does he believe Christianity is based in.

Answer 35

‘Only Christ, only scripture and only faith.’

Question 36

Cheap grace.

Answer 36

Going through the rituals of Christianity.

Question 37

Costly grace.

Answer 37

‘It costs a man his life, and it is grace bevayse it gives man the only true life.”

Question 38

What justification does Bonhoeffer use for why suffering is a necessary part of salvation.

Answer 38

Because God on earth was not a supreme leader, but weak and powerless.

Question 39

What three ways does he explain are used to fight Jewish discrimmination and in what book.

Answer 39

‘The Church and the Jewish Question’
- Question the legitamacy of the states actions.
- Help all victims of injustice.
- Be fully engaged in resistance to reverse injustice.

Question 40

What does Fletcher claim his theology is.

Answer 40

‘As radical version of the situational method as any Christian relativist could call for.’

Question 41

Argument in ‘After Ten Years.’

Answer 41

That sympathy is the feelings after experiencing being both victim and perpetuator of prejudice towards a faith.