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The cost of discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Touchstone, 1995Edition: First Touchstone editionDescription: 316 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0684815001
  • 9780684815008
Uniform titles:
  • Nachfolge. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I: Grace and discipleship -- Costly grace -- The call to discipleship -- Single-minded obedience -- Discipleship and the cross -- Discipleship and the individual -- Part II: The sermon on the Mount -- Matthew 5 : of the "extraordinariness" of the Christian life -- The beatitudes -- The visible community -- The righteousness of Christ --The brother -- Woman -- Truthfulness -- Revenge -- The enemy, the "extraordinary" -- Matthew 6 : of the hidden character of the Christian life --The hidden righteousness -- The hiddenness of prayer -- The hiddenness of the devout life --The simplicity of the carefree life -- Matthew 7 : the separation of the disciple community -- The disciple and unbelievers --The great divide -- The conclusion -- Part III: The messengers -- The harvest -- The apostles -- The work -- The suffering of the messengers -- The decision -- The fruit -- Part IV: The Church of Jesus Christ and the life of discipleship -- Preliminary questions --Baptism --The body of Christ -- The visible community --The saints -- The image of Christ.
Summary: What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? 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."
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NEW FOREWORD BY ERIC METAXAS

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.

Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1959.

Part I: Grace and discipleship -- Costly grace -- The call to discipleship -- Single-minded obedience -- Discipleship and the cross -- Discipleship and the individual -- Part II: The sermon on the Mount -- Matthew 5 : of the "extraordinariness" of the Christian life -- The beatitudes -- The visible community -- The righteousness of Christ --The brother -- Woman -- Truthfulness -- Revenge -- The enemy, the "extraordinary" -- Matthew 6 : of the hidden character of the Christian life --The hidden righteousness -- The hiddenness of prayer -- The hiddenness of the devout life --The simplicity of the carefree life -- Matthew 7 : the separation of the disciple community -- The disciple and unbelievers --The great divide -- The conclusion -- Part III: The messengers -- The harvest -- The apostles -- The work -- The suffering of the messengers -- The decision -- The fruit -- Part IV: The Church of Jesus Christ and the life of discipleship -- Preliminary questions --Baptism --The body of Christ -- The visible community --The saints -- The image of Christ.

What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? 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."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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