Church as community and source of spiritual discipline (Edexcel A-Level Religious Studies): Flashcards

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Bonhoeffer: Church as community

Must; key source of spiritual discipline

Church community enables (Bonhoeffer)

Meditate on God's will & fulfill God's duty

Nietzsche's identity

Secular critic of Christianity

Nietzsche on Christianity

Toxic influence; humanity should move past it

Bonhoeffer's agreement w/ Nietzsche

Christianity became toxic

Bonhoeffer's solution

Religionless Christianity

Religionless Christianity aim

Make religion work in new secular age

Bonhoeffer's era

Secularism replaced Christian understanding; rise of science

'World coming of age' result

No longer needs reliance on legalism

Religionless Christianity removes

Irrelevant principles, cheap grace, rusty swords

Religionless Christianity focus

Live like disciple of Jesus, follow God's will

Criticism of Bonhoeffer

Strips Christianity of core values/principles

Hauerwas: without God, we lack

Meaning, purpose, moral guidance

Hauerwas: Church's role

Moral compass

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