Christian Moral Actions

Question 1

When was Dietrich Bonhoeffer born?

Answer 1

1906

Question 2

What type of Christianity did he practice?

Answer 2

Lutherism

Question 3

What is Lutherism?

Answer 3

Criticised the church if it diverged from the bible

Question 4

What did he believed should be separated?

Answer 4

The church and the state

Question 5

What time did Bonhoeffer live in?

Answer 5

WW2
Germany under Hitler’s control

Question 6

What did some Christian’s do?

Answer 6

Join the Nazi party

Question 7

What commandment of Jesus’ did this go against?

Answer 7

Love thy neighbour

Question 8

What were Christian’s separating themselves from?

Answer 8

The Jewish people

Question 9

What did they want to discard because it was from Jewish origin?

Answer 9

The Old Testament

Question 10

What has been a big challenge to authority of the state?

Answer 10

Christianity

Question 11

When was there a split between the German Protestant Churches?

Answer 11

1934

Question 12

What were the two Protestant branches?

Answer 12

Christian Evangelical Church (created by Hitler)
Confessing Church

Question 13

Who created the Confessing Church?

Answer 13

Bonhoeffer

Question 14

Why did people stay in the German Evangelical Church?

Answer 14

They believed that the state’s laws were an expression of God’s laws

Question 15

Why was it called the confessing church?

Answer 15

They believed that they were the only Christian’s ‘confessing’ their faith

Question 16

What did some German Christians wear to show support for Nazis National socialism?

Answer 16

Brown uniforms

Question 17

What did the German Evangelical church do?

Answer 17

Removed all non-Aryan clergy
Tried to remove the Old Testament

Question 18

Who was seen as the leader of Christianity alongside Jesus?

Answer 18

Hitler

Question 19

What was the role of a Christian community?

Answer 19

To give its members what they need to live good lives

Question 20

What is religionless Christianity?

Answer 20

Bonhoeffer’s idea that we should get rid of old-fashioned ideas and separate itself from present ideologies

Question 21

What did the Confessing church gather to produce in 1934?

Answer 21

The Barmen Declaration

Question 22

Who wrote the Barmen Declaration?

Answer 22

Karl Barth

Question 23

What were the core beliefs of the Barmen Declaration?

Answer 23

Jesus is the only true leader and only way to God
Christian’s must not follow any teaching that does not come from the revelation of Jesus
Other ideologies do not have authority over a person’s life

Question 24

What did Bonhoeffer later see as a weakness to the Declaration?

Answer 24

It’s focus on beliefs rather than action

Question 25

What was a major influence on how Bonhoeffer saw religion?

Answer 25

When he studied and experienced Christian culture in America

Question 26

What did Bonhoeffer place a huge emphasis on?

Answer 26

Discipleship

Question 27

What is discipleship?

Answer 27

Showing exclusive obedience to the leadership of God and burning all other ties

Question 28

What is the metaphor that Jesus used on the Sermon on the mount?

Answer 28

That followers must be salt and light

Question 29

What does salt and light mean?

Answer 29

Just as salt adds flavour to food Christian’s must act like moral people
Being the light held high lights up the whole room

Question 30

What was the ‘visible community’?

Answer 30

The followers when their discipleship is visible in action

Question 31

What ideas did the confessing church reject?

Answer 31

The Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy
The anti-Jewish laws
The identification of Hitler as a figure who fulfilled the Christian vision

Question 32

What was the place called that Bonhoeffer was asked to look after a seminary?

Answer 32

Finkenwalde

Question 33

W hat is a seminary?

Answer 33

A place where Church leaders are trained

Question 34

Why was the seminary illegal and secret?

Answer 34

State seminaries were only allowing Aryan people to train in their institutions

Question 35

When was the seminary closed?

Answer 35

1937

Question 36

Who closed it?

Answer 36

The Gestapo

Question 37

What did he think came from a Christian community?

Answer 37

Spiritual discipline

Question 38

What was spiritual discipline for Bonhoeffer?

Answer 38

Prayer centred
Bible-based
Simple
Focused on the whole person
Communal
Action based

Question 39

Why was Bonhoeffer unhappy with the confessing church

Answer 39

They were not prepared to voice criticism against the treatment of the Jewish people and the collapse of civil rights in Germany

Question 40

What is civil disobedience?

Answer 40

When a group fails to comply with certain laws in peaceful protest

Question 41

What actions did Bonhoeffer do in civil disobedience?

Answer 41

Spoke against Hitler in public
Joined a plot to assassinate him
Rejected the idea of two separate areas of life: private + public

Question 42

What happened to him from these actions?

Answer 42

He was sacked from the university he spoke at
Banned from attending public lectures

Question 43

What were the two types of Grace called?

Answer 43

Costly
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