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Bonhoeffer & Civil Disobedience

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Bonhoeffer and Civil Disobedience

Civil disobedience is when a group fails to comply with certain laws in peaceful protest. Bonhoeffer failed to join the Nazi party and instead joined the resistance against them.

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Bonhoeffer's resistance

  • Bonhoeffer spoke against Hitler in public and even joined a plot to assassinate Hitler.
  • Bonhoeffer rejected the idea that there were two separate areas of life: the private life and the public one.
  • For Christians, there is only one realm and that realm must be entirely led by obedience to Jesus Christ.
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Bonhoeffer's proactivity

  • Bonhoeffer was very proactive in his beliefs.
    • For example, he spoke out against Nazi ideas at the university where he worked and lost his job for it.
    • He spoke out against the Nazis in public lectures and was banned from attending any more.
    • He eventually criticised the Confessing Church - a Church he had originally been a part of - when it faltered under pressure from Hitler to conform and he participated in an illegal seminary.

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1Philosophy of Religion

1.1Ancient Philosophical Influences: Plato

1.2Ancient Philosophical Influences: Aristotle

1.3Ancient Philosophical Influences: Soul, Mind, Body

1.4The Existence of God - Arguments from Observation

1.5The Existence of God - Arguments from Reason

1.6Religious Experience

1.7The Problem of Evil

1.8The Nature & Attributes of God

1.9Religious Language: Negative, Analogical, Symbolic

1.10Religious Language: 20th Century Perspective

2Religion & Ethics

3Developments in Christian Thought

3.1Saint Augustine's Teachings

3.2Death & the Afterlife

3.3Knowledge of God's Existence

3.4The Person of Jesus Christ

3.5Christian Moral Principles

3.6Christian Moral Action

3.7Development - Pluralism & Theology

3.8Development - Pluralism & Society

3.9Gender & Society

3.10Gender & Theology

3.11Challenges

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