Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 4) (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (Paperback)) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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.

Genres: Theology, Faith

Paperback

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Protestant theologian of Germany, concern Christianity in the modern world; for his role in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, people executed him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer served as a Lutheran pastor. He, also a participant in the movement of Resistance against Nazism and a member, founded the confessing church. Members of the Abwehr, the military intelligence office planned his involvement, which resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent hanging in April 1945 shortly before the end of the war. His secular view influenced very many people.

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Reviews

[Jon Coutts · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's a tension between this and the rest of DB's work which explains why reception is divided between social gospelers and pious libertarians. But these fail to see that the tension is also within this book, and is resolved in Ethics.

[Kaitlin]

"[D]o what is good! You do it. That is the only thing that counts. It is not important for you what others might do, but what you will do. Do what is good, fearlessly, unreservedly, and uncontrollably." (p. 223)

"In Adam, God recognized the divine self. Thus, from the beginning, it is our unfathomable mystery as human beings that we are creatures and yet are called to be like the Creator. As created human beings, we are called to beat the image of the uncreated God." (p. 266)

"The image of God should be restored in us once again. This task encompasses our whole existence. . . . The image springs from real life, the living primordial form. Form is this being shaped by form." (p. 267)

[Corey · Rating 5 out of 5]

First and last third are amazing. Middle is less so. I think all of his other non academic published works are better. (C&F, Life Together, and Ethics). But Barth’s right about the last section 🤌🏼

[Aleks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some very good insights but too theoligically dense to be practical.