Bokcirkel frågor om The Kingdom of God Is Within You

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Träff 1: Chapters 1 to 5

1. When professed brotherhood conflicts with daily conduct, which should carry more weight in judging a person's faith?
2. What might the punishment of objectors reveal about the conflict between Christian teaching and state violence?
3. Who, if anyone, should have the authority to define evil and permit force?
4. Can fixed creeds support continual spiritual growth, or must they get in its way?
5. How might treating an infinite moral goal as fixed rules change the choices a person makes?

Träff 2: Chapters 6 to 10

6. What should matter most when military obedience and personal conscience conflict?
7. Why might discussions of militarism avoid the personal question of whether to serve?
8. How does making people enforce their own oppression affect the fairness of military duty?
9. How far does the conflict between military obedience and Christian conscience support the claim that force cannot end oppression?
10. How does government dependence on individual obedience change your view of personal responsibility?

Träff 3: Chapters 11 to 12

11. How much responsibility should individuals bear for the pace of moral change?
12. What makes changing moral standards a convincing challenge to institutions that rely on violence?
13. How does the account of peasant punishment affect your judgment of property enforced through fear?
14. What might explain Christian officials' untroubled consciences in the face of peasant punishment?
15. How might officials' untroubled consciences complicate the claim that individual action determines the pace of change?

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