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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Metaxas describe the mood of the people where Bonhoeffer was memorialized?
2. What was the politically dangerous message that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer made in a sermon at Trinity Church in Berlin one month after Hitler became Chancellor?
3. What quote does Metaxas pull from a sermon that Bonhoeffer gave in Barcelona while his parents were visiting?
4. What does Metaxas report to be the response of the German Christians to the choice of Friedrich von Bodelschwing as Reichsbischof?
5. What were the two reasons Metaxas cites that Bonhoeffer decided to lead two German congregations in London?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Metaxas claim that meeting Karl Barth was important to Bonhoeffer?
2. How does Metaxas claim that Karl Barth influenced Bonhoeffer's theological approach?
3. What does Metaxas claim to be Hitler's goal in establishing the office of Reichsbischof (Reich bishop) over the church?
4. How does Metaxas suggest Bonhoeffer's relationships outside of Germany affected his view of the church?
5. What does Metaxas write to be the significance of the Nazi's burning the books of Erich Remarque?
6. What does Metaxas report to be the "Night of the Long Knives"?
7. For what was Bonhoeffer's father, Karl Bonhoeffer, internationally renowned, according to Metaxas?
8. According to Metaxas, why was Reformation Sunday an important celebration for churches in Germany?
9. Who does Metaxas claim to have inspired Bonhoeffer to desire to travel to Rome?
10. What does Metaxas claim to have been the make-up of Bonhoeffer's confirmation class in Wedding?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Upon arriving in America and beginning his studies here, Bonhoeffer made some very harsh criticisms of American theology students. Are Bonhoeffer's observations true to this day? If so, how are they demonstrated? If not, explain why he is mistaken and point out evidence from the time of Bonhoeffer's visit that makes his observations incorrect.
Essay Topic 2
As the Nazis became more assertive over the affairs of the church, Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse constructed the Bethel Confession which Metaxas claims, "...was to spell out the true and historic Christian faith, which contrasted with Ludwig Muller's facile and inchoate "theology." Identify the main points of the confession and the its ultimate fate after it was circulated among Germany's top clergy. What were the motivations of various clergymen to act in the fashion they did to the language of the Confession? Were their action dedicated to the defense of Christianity? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Bonhoeffer began challenging Nazi oppressions almost from the moment he returned to Germany from America. Compare and contrast Bonhoeffer's theological views, including his views of eucumenicalism, to those of Hitler and the Nazis and how the two separate theological views played themselves out in Bonhoeffer's life and during the Nazi regime in Germany.
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