issue 2: the church community: KARL BARTH

• Hitler put the church in a 'dreamy state'. saying no to this and going against this
• Bonhoeffer = the church became to secularised and lost its sense of costly grace- should be a 'visible community'- a sign of hope for others.
• a source of morality and hope for all
• god has authority over a person's life not an ideology.
• 3 features of Finkenwalde

  meditation, reflection and community
• solidarity- "existence for others"
• "who will speak out for those who are voiceless" Proverb 31:8
• costly grace "when Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die...Suffering then, is the badge of true discipleship, 1959"
• did Bonhoeffer place to much emphasis on suffering?

  yes: -down play the joy and hope offered by the Resurrection

  -impossible to live a Christian life of discipleship involving suffering & sacrifice

  -dependent on injustice and suffering existing

  -not representative of all Christian experience
• did Bonhoeffer place to much emphasis on suffering?

  no:

  -everyone experiences suffering in some form at some point in their life.

  -necessary part of following the call of Jesus