The teaching and example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Edexcel A-Level Religious Studies): Flashcards

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The teaching and example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Year Bonhoeffer was born

1906

Year Bonhoeffer joined pastors emergency league

1934

Year Bonhoeffer joined resistance to Nazism

1940

What was Finkenwalde

Where Bonhoeffer held illegal secret seminaries

How to find God's will (Bonhoeffer)

Meditating on the bible and praying

What the Bible contains (Bonhoeffer's view)

No universal nor eternal ethical truths

Define 'rusty swords'

Principles from past, ineffective tools for fighting evil today

What is cheap grace

Belief you can be easily forgiven through confession

What is costly grace

True grace requiring costly discipleship and suffering

Parable backing costly grace concept

Good Samaritan

Bonhoeffer's theological position

Neo orthodox

Define religionless Christianity

Christianity without irrelevant principles, cheap grace, rusty swords

Aquinas's criticism of Bonhoeffer

Fails to take natural law into account

Nietzsche's view of Christianity

Toxic influence on humanity to get past

World coming of age meaning

No longer needs reliance on legalism

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