Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Role of the Church as Community - lesson

This lesson was made for a KS5 class to cover the section on Christian moral action and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the OCR Religious Studies A Level syllabus. The lesson lasts for approximately 1 hour 30 mins and addresses the following focus question:

• What was Bonhoeffer’s view of the role of the Church as community?

The main activity detailed within the PowerPoint is a group activity where each group creates either a large storyboard, paper model or TV documentary script with information on Religionless Christianity, The Confessing Church and the religious community at Finkenwalde (as allocated). Students will then complete an exhibition/market-stall activity where they fill in the included worksheets with the relevant information. The lesson then includes an essay planning activity with all, most and some differentiation and a plenary activity. Suggested timings for each activity are included in the notes section of the PowerPoint.

NOTE This lesson requires students to refer to pages in the OCR A Level Religious Studies Year 1 textbook.