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The cost of discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995Edition: First Touchstone editionDescription: 316 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0684815001
  • 9780684815008
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 226.2 BON
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.
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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Originally published in German as Nachfolge: München : C. Kaiser, 1937. This translation originally published: London : SCM Press, 1959.

"A Touchstone book"

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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."

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