The most original core of the Christian experience is freedom. This different perspective throws a radically new light on some "habitual places" of Christian ethics: guilt, sacrifice, atonement, suffering, obedience. Christianity, said D. Bonhoeffer, is fundamentally amoral; Christian ethics cannot in any way be understood as the (theoretical) determination of the principles which must be adhered to in order to be considered Christians. Practical teaching of the Gospel does not start from the need to "teach how to do good", but from the need to translate the reality of redemption operating in man into action. The fundamental ethical question for the Christian is: "What reality does God want me to shape with my actions?". Christian action is thus configured as an authentically creative action. In the words and actions of Jesus a free world takes shape. Man has no debt to pay, no sin to atone, he is, in the eyes of God, radically and authentically free or, in theological terms, redeemed.