REVISION: "CHRISTIAN MORAL PRINCIPLES"

Revision for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)

Five pages

DCT – LIVING

CHRISTIAN MORAL PRINCIPLES

BIBLE = ONLY AUTHORITY FOR CHRISTIAN MORALS

Theonomous Christian ethics

Sola scriptura

Issues with theonomous ethics

BIBLE, CHURCH + REASON = SOURCES OF CHRISTIAN MORALS

Heteronomous Christian ethics

Roman Catholic attitudes to Church teachings

Protestant attitudes to Church teachings

AGAPE = ONLY CHRISTIAN ETHICAL PRINCIPLE

Autonomous Christian ethics

CHURCH AUTHORITY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL

CHRISTIAN ETHICS: PERSONAL OR COMMUNAL?

CHRISTIAN MORAL ACTION

BONHOEFFER

DUTY TO GOD OR THE STATE?

Bonhoeffer’s teaching on obedience, leadership + doing God’s will

CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL

Civil disobedience

CHURCH AS COMMUNITY + SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE

Bonhoeffer’s role in Confessing Church

Bonhoeffer’s role at Finkenwalde

COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

God’s grace, suffering + solidarity

BONHOEFFER’S EMPHASIS ON SUFFERING

BONHOEFFER’S RELEVANCE TODAY