Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer

1. The confessing church

2. Nazi control over church and universities

3. Bethel and Barman confessions

4. Reichskirche vs confessing church

   • confess t Barmen statement not Nazi church

5. Finkenwaide seminary

6. Life together and Discipleship (books)

7. not necessarily radical group

8. involved in The Abwehr plot

   • plan assassinate Hitler

9. involved in operation 7

   • smuggle Jews into Switzerland

10. Bethal

    • village for those with disabilities
      • Christian mission
        • the church in its visibility
          • A place of concrete reality

11. Buchenwald

    • concentration camp
      • work camp
      • where the weak are crushed
        • T-4 programs
          • the mechanization of life

12. "My strength is made perfect in weakness

    • London sermon
      • what is weakness in the wold?
        • weakness discloses dependence
          • Christ embrases weakness

13. Christianity Vs 'Aristocratic' view

    • against benevolence
      • from a position of strength- needs to be more

14. we see what we are in Christ

    • we all have fragmentary life

15. The sovereignty of God

    • The presence of God in suffering
      • The need to embrace the other as other
        • rival anthropologies
          • The need to take a stance on behalf of the other