Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- Created on: 15-06-18 09:28
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- Christian moral action: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Executed on Christian beliefs
- Stood up against the Nazis
- Failed assassination of Hitler
- Joined the confessing church and the resistance
- Christianity is communal
- God wants us to obey to the state if the state is acting in a just way
- Also have a duty to the people
- Should always follow God's ethics and not human ethics because humans are essentially broken
- Christians should always be looking back to God's will
- Generally should obey the government
- Aquinas
- Ordering society is one of the primary precepts in natural law
- As long as the government doesn't oppose God's law
- Ordering society is one of the primary precepts in natural law
- State doesn't represent God's will the church does, Church keeps the state in check
- Aquinas
- Opposed autonomous ethics
- Humans make decisions relying on love and love is a human idea
- Executed on Christian beliefs
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