Christian Moral Actions Flashcards
1
Q
What did both Aquinas and the Church teach about the state vs personal freedom?
A
The state is made for its citizens, the state can never remove individual rights as it is not the source of those rights. Popes since Pius the fourth have declared this. You should live with reason and devotion to God.
2
Q
What do totalitarian states want?
A
Full rule and total control over their people.
3
Q
What was the confessing church?
A
A break away group within German Protestantism which disagreed with Hitlers’ attempts to make churches and instrument of Nazism.
4
Q
What two theologians was Barth influenced by?
A
Karl Barth and Niebuhr.
