Cost of Discipleship
Repackaged edition
Cost of Discipleship
Repackaged edition
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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334066460
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 30/04/2024
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
The Cost of Discipleship is one of the bestselling titles on the SCM Classics list and one of the classics of modern theology. Perhaps Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s most radical book, this reading of the Sermon on the Mount has influenced many Christians throughout the world over the last 60 years. With a foreword by Stephen Plant, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and one of the leading Bonhoeffer scholars of our time.
Preface to the 2015 edition vii
Acknowledgements xii
Memoir by G. Leibholz xiii
Introduction xxxi
I Grace and Discipleship
1. Costly Grace 3
2. The Call to Discipleship 15
3. Single-minded Obedience 35
4. Discipleship and the Cross 41
5. Discipleship and the Individual 48
II The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5: Of the 'Extraordinariness' of the Christian Life
6. The Beatitudes 59
7. The Visible Community 68
8. The Righteousness of Christ 73
9. The Brother 79
10. Woman 83
11. Truthfulness 86
12. Revenge 90
13. 'The Enemy - the 'Extraordinary' 95
Matthew 6: Of the Hidden Character of the Christian Life
14. The Hidden Righteousness 103
15. The Hiddenness of Prayer 109
16. The Hiddenness of the Devout Life 115
17. The Simplicity of the Carefree Life 118
Matthew 7. The Separation of the Disciple Community
18. The Disciple and Unbelievers 126
19. The Great Divide 132
20. The Conclusion 138
III The Messengers
21. The Harvest 143
22. The Apostles 146
23. The Work 148
24. The Suffering of the Messengers 154
25. The Decision 158
26. The Fruit 161
IV The Church of Jesus Christ and the Life of Discipleship
27. Preliminary Questions 165
28. Baptism 169
29. The Body of Christ 175
30. The Visible Community 185
31. The Saints 206
32. The Image of Christ 228
Without a doubt, the book that has most changed my life is Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship. It is incredible. I first read it at Bible college and then read it again three years ago. Bonhoeffer writes about cheap grace - how we can make the gospel what people want to hear so that we get a bigger response- and how we must fight against that. As an evangelist, I can sometimes feel the temptation to give a softer message to get more people responding, but actually we need to be true to the message that belongs to God. You can change the style, but don't change the substance. -- Gavin Calver
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