Discipleship

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Barbara Green (Translator), Reinhard Krauss (Translator)

Overview

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace. And with that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official Nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship). Originally published in 1937, it soon became a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous and criminal government. At its center stands an interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount: what Jesus demanded of his followers and how the life of discipleship is to be continued in all ages of the post-resurrection church.

Every call of Jesus is a call to death, Bonhoeffer wrote. His own life ended in martyrdom on April 9, 1945.

Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation and adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett and an insightful introduction by Geffrey B. Kelly to clarify the theological meaning and social context of this attempt to resist the Nazi ideology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506402710
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Series:	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	309
Sales rank:	210,877
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), a German theologian, pastor, and ecumenist, studied in Berlin and at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He played a central role in the Confessing Church during the Nazi period and became one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works

Abbreviations

Editors' Introduction to the English Edition, Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey

Discipleship

Preface

Part One

Part Two

Editors' Afterword to the German Edition, Martin Kuske and Ilse Todt

Chronology

Bibliography

Index of Scriptural References

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Editors and Translators