Without a doubt, the book that has most changed my life is Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship. It is incredible. I first read it at Bible college and then read it again three years ago. Bonhoeffer writes about cheap grace - how we can make the gospel what people want to hear so that we get a bigger response- and how we must fight against that.

As an evangelist, I can sometimes feel the temptation to give a softer message to get more people responding, but actually we need to be true to the message that belongs to God. You can change the style, but don't change the substance.

- Gavin Calver,

The Cost of Discipleship is one of the bestselling titles on the SCM Classics list and one of the classics of modern theology. Perhaps Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s most radical book, this reading of the Sermon on the Mount has influenced many Christians throughout the world over the last 60 years. With a foreword by Stephen Plant, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and one of the leading Bonhoeffer scholars of our time.
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Preface to the 2015 edition vii Acknowledgements xii Memoir by G. Leibholz xiii Introduction xxxi I Grace and Discipleship 1. Costly Grace 3 2. The Call to Discipleship 15 3. Single-minded Obedience 35 4. Discipleship and the Cross 41 5. Discipleship and the Individual 48 II The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5: Of the 'Extraordinariness' of the Christian Life 6. The Beatitudes 59 7. The Visible Community 68 8. The Righteousness of Christ 73 9. The Brother 79 10. Woman 83 11. Truthfulness 86 12. Revenge 90 13. 'The Enemy - the 'Extraordinary' 95 Matthew 6: Of the Hidden Character of the Christian Life 14. The Hidden Righteousness 103 15. The Hiddenness of Prayer 109 16. The Hiddenness of the Devout Life 115 17. The Simplicity of the Carefree Life 118 Matthew 7. The Separation of the Disciple Community 18. The Disciple and Unbelievers 126 19. The Great Divide 132 20. The Conclusion 138 III The Messengers 21. The Harvest 143 22. The Apostles 146 23. The Work 148 24. The Suffering of the Messengers 154 25. The Decision 158 26. The Fruit 161 IV The Church of Jesus Christ and the Life of Discipleship 27. Preliminary Questions 165 28. Baptism 169 29. The Body of Christ 175 30. The Visible Community 185 31. The Saints 206 32. The Image of Christ 228
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780334066460
Publisert
2024-04-30
Utgiver
SCM Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Biografisk notat

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) is one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century. His death at the hands of the Nazis has made him a modern martyr and an icon of radical Christianity.