| Discipleship: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4 English Edition Contributor(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (Author), Godsey, John D. (Author), Green, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0800683048 ISBN-13: 9780800683047 Publisher: Fortress Press OUR PRICE: $53.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: Formerly titled "The Cost of Discipleship", this classic exposition tells what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous, criminal government. "Discipleship" provides an accurate rendering of the text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the meaning, context and reception of this work and its attempt to resist the Nazi ideology infecting German Christian churches in the 1930s and 1940s. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Discipleship |
| Dewey: 230.044 |
| LCCN: 00037627 |
| Series: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.3" W x 9.27" (1.55 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Theometrics - Mainline - Theometrics - Evangelical - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 followersand 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. Freshly translated from the German critical edition, Discipleship provides a more accurate rendering of the text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the meaning, context, and reception of this work and its attempt to resist the Nazi ideology then infecting German Christian churches. |