Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Cost of Discipleship

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Narrator: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2009

Synopsis

This book is quite simply, one of the most profound and important books of the 20th century. Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived a testimony of his thoughtful and engaging writers. Focusing on the most treasured part of Christ's teaching - the Sermon on the Mount with its call to discipleship, and on the grace of God and the sacrifice which that demands. // Viewed against the background of Nazi Germany, Bonhoeffer's book is striking enough. At the same time, it shares with many great Christian classics a quality of timelessness, so that it has spoken, and continues to speak powerfully, to the varied concerns of the contemporary world.

About Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most significant Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, a legacy sealed by his imprisonment in a German concentration camp and eventual execution. His resistance against Nazism and pivotal role in the Confessing Church movement have been key points of illumination for many on the nature of Christian political witness and action. Millions have been inspired by his rich reflections on the Christian life, especially his beloved works on discipleship and ethics. As a professor, seminary leader, and ecumenical theologian, Bonhoeffer's work also profoundly shaped academic theology, especially systematic theology, and the life of the church.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Werner on February 23, 2021

Note, Feb. 23, 2021: I've just edited this to correct one typo. Although I had a vague memory, when the Christian Goodreaders group chose this book as a common read, of having read some of Bonhoeffer's writings back in my early 20s, I now believe that what I read back then was his Life Together: The......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on December 30, 2009

Where does one begin? This is a book that will profoundly change your understanding about what it means to be a person of faith in the world. Bonhoeffer challenges us to look beyond the values of this world, and asks us are we willing to embrace the true cost of discipleship? His analysis of cheap gr......more

Goodreads review by Brett on July 28, 2009

This book will mess you up, and you will be better for it - at least it should. Bonhoeffer combats what he coins "cheap grace" (i.e., grace with no demand, no cost, no cross). He demonstrates that the life of discipleship is the life of crucifixion. But this is not from some pussified metrosexual pa......more

Goodreads review by Mike on March 16, 2013

I have spent most of my life attending what are generally called the mainline Protestant denominations in the US. I grew up in the United Methodist Church and I'm now a PCUSA Presbyterian. I have heard this book quoted or referenced In sermons and bible studies more times than I can count. But I had......more

Goodreads review by Caleb on November 09, 2023

Bonhoeffer lived his faith. He was a strong opposer to the nazi party during WWII and their treatment of the Jewish people. As a result of that opposition, not long after writing this book, he was imprisoned. Then, he was placed in a concentration camp and hung. He wanted the body of Christ to come......more

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