3.6.2
Bonhoeffer & Civil Disobedience
Bonhoeffer and Civil Disobedience
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.
Bonhoeffer's resistance
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.
Bonhoeffer's proactivity
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.
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
2Religion & Ethics
2.1Natural Law
2.2Situation Ethics
2.3Kantian Ethics
2.4Utilitarianism
2.5Euthanasia
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
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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
2Religion & Ethics
2.1Natural Law
2.2Situation Ethics
2.3Kantian Ethics
2.4Utilitarianism
2.5Euthanasia
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
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