Bonhoeffer Quiz - Christian Moral Action

The role of the Church community in wider life is to:

• support and serve others beyond their own members

• focus only on internal worship and rituals

• avoid involvement in social issues

• discourage community outreach

Discipleship: ________ the life, example and teaching of Jesus.

• following

• ignoring

• forgetting

• opposing

Cheap grace: grace that is offered freely, but is received without any change in the recipient, and ultimately is ________ as it does not save.

• false

• transformative

• valuable

• effective

Costly grace: grace followed by ________ to God's command and discipleship.

• obedience

• ignorance

• hesitation

• indifference

Solidarity: an altruistic commitment to stand alongside and be with those less fortunate, the oppressed, those who ________.

• suffer

• celebrate

• prosper

• ignore

Prosperity Gospel: charismatic Christian belief that God rewards faith with ________ reward.

• financial

• spiritual

• physical

• emotional

Sacrifice: the act of giving up an attachment to something you hold ________.

• dear

• far

• old

• lost

Kenosis: from the Greek, meaning '________-out', used to describe Christ's giving of his life for others.

• emptying

• filling

• breaking

• lifting

The Barmen Declaration was made by the confessing Church in which year, and what is the confessing Church?

• 1934; a Protestant movement in Nazi Germany opposing state control of churches

• 1945; a Catholic organization supporting the Nazi regime

• 1939; a Jewish resistance group during World War II

• 1920; an ecumenical council of all Christian denominations

What was the main reason the Confessing Church was formed in 1934?

• To support Hitler's vision

• To reject the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy and anti-Jewish laws

• To establish a new political party

• To promote economic reforms