The Cost of Discipleship

by Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
ISBN: 9780684815008
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic book on living as a Christian.

What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the government worker? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."

The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
  • ISBN: 9780684815008
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.44 x 0.79
  • Number Of Pages: 320
  • Publication Year: 1995

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  • Living and dying for what one believes

    Stephen G. - 7 months ago

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was among the relatively few German pastors to oppose Hitler and his policies. At one point, he had moved to the United States, which was not a bad option considering what the end result was for most of Hitler's opponents. But then he realized that he was called to lead and to pastor his people, who were still in Germany. Returning, he continued to oppose Hitler and ended up paying for it with his life, being killed in a concentration camp barely a month before the fall of Germany to the Allies in World War II. This book expresses his understanding that faith is not simply an assent to a set of propositions but a call to a life that demonstrates those truths. He walked -- and died -- the talk.

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