Status
Available
Call number
DDC/MDS
241.5 BON |
Publication
Touchstone (1995), Edition: 1st, 320 pages
Description
Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer provides a seminal reading of the dichotomy between 'cheap grace' and 'costly grace.' Cheap grace is the grace bestowed on oneself, a grace without discipleship. Costly grace is the gospel that must be sought again and again, the girl who 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.
Subjects
Awards
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1937 (original German)
Physical description
320 p.; 8.44 inches
ISBN
0684815001 / 9780684815008
Collection
Other editions
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Paperback)