Political friendship and christian community:

a dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Abstract

The current article intends to discuss two philosophical and theological concepts: the christian community and political friendship according to the thoughts of Hannah Arendt and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and also relate them. We intend to understand how the concept of responsability is primary to connect Arendt’s understanding of amor mundi and Bonhoeffer’s concept of church and the christian responsability in the world. We want to understand how their perception about the individual responsability is important to make the human being’s actions in the public world.