The Cost of DiscipleshipNEW 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. |
Contents
Foreword by Bishop G K A Bell | 13 |
Introduction | 35 |
Costly Grace | 43 |
The Call to Discipleship | 57 |
SingleMinded Obedience | 79 |
Discipleship and the Cross | 86 |
Discipleship and the Individual | 94 |
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT | 103 |
THE MESSENGERS | 199 |
The Harvest | 201 |
The Apostles | 204 |
The Work | 206 |
The Suffering of the Messengers | 213 |
The Decision | 217 |
The Fruit | 220 |
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE LIFE OF DISCIPLESHIP | 223 |
The Visible Community | 115 |
The Brother | 126 |
Truthfulness | 135 |
Of the Hidden Character | 152 |
The Hiddenness of Prayer | 162 |
The Hiddenness of the Devout Life | 169 |
The Simplicity of the Carefree Life | 173 |
The Separation of the Disciple Community 18 The Disciple and Unbelievers | 182 |
The Great Divide | 189 |
The Conclusion | 196 |
Preliminary Questions | 225 |
Baptism | 229 |
The Body of Christ | 236 |
The Visible Community | 248 |
The Saints | 272 |
The Image of Christ | 298 |
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