Duty, Community, Discipleship

Christian Moral Action

Content

• The teaching and example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on:

  • duty to God and duty to the State

  • Church as community and source of spiritual discipline

  • the cost of discipleship

Key Knowledge

• Bonhoeffer’s teaching on the relationship of Church and State including:

  • obedience, leadership and doing God’s will

  • justification of civil disobedience

• Bonhoeffer’s role in the Confessing Church and his own religious community at Finkenwalde

• Bonhoeffer’s teaching on ethics as action, including:

  • ‘costly grace’

  • sacrifice and suffering

  • solidarity