The Cost of Discipleship (SCM Classics) - Softcover

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0334028566 ISBN 13: 9780334028567

Publisher: SCM Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

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 Christianity Magazine, Jan 2016)

About the Author:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau in 1906. The son of a famous German psychiatrist, he studied in Berlin and New York City. He left the safety of America to return to Germany and continue his public repudiation of the Nazis, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitler failed, he was hanged in April 1945.

About this edition

• Publisher: SCM Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0334028566
• ISBN 13: 9780334028567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310