The Cost Of Discipleship
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Minor foxing to pages, some chipping and discolouration to DJ, previous owner inscription to FEP.
In one of the most searching and uncompromising examinations of Christian faith ever written, Dietrich Bonhoeffer issues a devastating challenge to the comfortable compromises of modern Christianity, drawing a sharp distinction between what he terms cheap grace and costly grace. Written by a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who would ultimately be executed by the Nazi regime for his resistance activities, The Cost of Discipleship centers on a rigorous exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, arguing that authentic Christian life demands radical obedience to the call of Christ — nothing less than the complete surrender of self. Bonhoeffer's prose is at once deeply theological and urgently personal, reflecting the harrowing historical moment in which it was composed — Nazi Germany in the late 1930s — and lending his arguments a moral weight that few theological works can match. The work stands as a cornerstone of 20th-century Protestant theology, challenging every generation of readers to confront the true demands of faith. Is the grace you have received cheap, or have you truly counted the cost?
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, SCM Press
Genre: Religion
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Minor foxing to pages, some chipping and discolouration to DJ, previous owner inscription to FEP.
In one of the most searching and uncompromising examinations of Christian faith ever written, Dietrich Bonhoeffer issues a devastating challenge to the comfortable compromises of modern Christianity, drawing a sharp distinction between what he terms cheap grace and costly grace. Written by a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who would ultimately be executed by the Nazi regime for his resistance activities, The Cost of Discipleship centers on a rigorous exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, arguing that authentic Christian life demands radical obedience to the call of Christ — nothing less than the complete surrender of self. Bonhoeffer's prose is at once deeply theological and urgently personal, reflecting the harrowing historical moment in which it was composed — Nazi Germany in the late 1930s — and lending his arguments a moral weight that few theological works can match. The work stands as a cornerstone of 20th-century Protestant theology, challenging every generation of readers to confront the true demands of faith. Is the grace you have received cheap, or have you truly counted the cost?