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Dewey Decimal Number: 226.2 EAN: 9780020838500 Edition: Rev Unbrdg ISBN: 0020838506 Label: Scribner Paper Fiction Manufacturer: Scribner Paper Fiction Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: March 01, 1963 Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction Studio: Scribner Paper Fiction Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." With these words, in The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave powerful voice to the millions of Christians who believe personal sacrifice is an essential component of faith. Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian, was an exemplar of sacrificial faith: he opposed the Nazis from the first and was eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald and hung by the Gestapo in 1945. The Cost of Discipleship, first published in German in 1937, was Bonhoeffer's answer to the questions, "What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us to-day?" Bonhoeffer's answers are rooted in Lutheran grace and derived from Christian scripture (almost a third of the book consists of an extended meditation on the Sermon on the Mount). The book builds to a stunning conclusion: its closing chapter, "The Image of Christ," describes the believer's spiritual life as participation in Christ's incarnation, with a rare and epigrammatic confidence: "Through fellowship and communion with the incarnate Lord," Bonhoeffer writes, "we recover our true humanity, and at the same time we are delivered from that individualism which is the consequence of sin, and retrieve our solidarity with the whole human race." --Michael Joseph Gross Product Description: Before his arrest by the Nazis in 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was head of a seminary of the German Confessing Church. In "The Cost of Discipleship", he focuses on the most treasured part of Christ's teaching, the Sermon on the Mount. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not the Best Place to Start a Worthwhile Study of BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer is without question a hero of the Christian Faith, and one would be well served to study his thoughts, theology, commitment and example. But this is probabaly not the place to start, for two reasons. (1) The writing style of this book is badly outdated and hard to follow and understand. This book badly needs an editor to put Bonhoeffer's thoughts into more modern prose. This book, as it is, is a difficult and at times convoluted read. A new updated editon is badly ... Read More Rating:  - Essential reading for ChristiansThis work deserves monumental status in the realm of Christian devotional literature. It challenges and redefines the popular notions of equating Christianity with being an adherent or church-goer. Bonhoeffer presents a very real, daunting picture of what a true Christian looks like. There are several haunting, powerful phrases and images in this book. The author's credibility is heightened by his own story of sacrifice, risk, danger and death (the introduction gives a beautiful summary). This ... Read More Rating: - Cheap grace - same old heresy it always wasIt is enlightening and encouraging that such a book could be penned by one of the great Lutherans of the 20th century. It goes counter to the common understanding of what is meant by "faith alone" among many Christians from Protestant traditions. Faith alone cannot be confused with what Bonhoeffer called "easy believism." If it is, then it is really no faith at all. The apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, uses the words obedience and faith as if synonymous (see Romans 1:5 and 16:26) ... Read More Rating:  - Christianity without cost doesn't exist!A Christian classic, The Cost of Discipleship is filled with countless gems of wisdom that run counter to the prevailing winds today that market the Christian life as one of ease and comfort. The book is not an easy read, but it is an encouraging and is probably more valuable for Christians today than even during Bonhoeffer's own time. The book is more than a call to costly discipleship, Bonhoeffer also dives into the Sermon on the Mount giving incredible insight in to the teachings of Christ in the ... Read More Rating: - "The Cost of Discipleship" - Relevant as EverIf Bonhoeffer were alive today and commenting on the American Church of 2008 instead of the German Church of the 1930s, all he would have to add is an appendix on the ascendancy of entertainment. Nothing -- nothing -- else would have to change. His scathing review of the complacency and spiritual poverty of the average Christian points a relevant finger at all of us, especially evangelicals who call themselves followers of The Way and live like followers of their appetites. 
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