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The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Andrew's review
bookshelves: church-history, favorite-books, modern-classics, religion, theology
Feb 05, 2012
bookshelves: church-history, favorite-books, modern-classics, religion, theology
Read in August, 2016
One of the most personally challenging books I've read; this is not 'family-friendly', soft-hearted, mush-minded evangelicalism but a hard, robust Christianity that recognises the true 'cost': suffering and death in the hope of being raised to new life. I only wish he had drawn even a little from Wesley, rather than largely from Luther on the matter of sanctification (which didn't go nearly far enough, and remained somewhat in despair of sin).
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“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
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Read a quote from it. Penetrating indeed.
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After checking this book out from the library twice, I'm determined to finally just buy a copy. This is not a fast read, and I mean that in a good way. It's something to savor, to study, and ponder. Every chapter I've read challenges me on some level, and forces me to confront preconceptions that have allowed me to drift toward embracing "cheap grace." This is a remarkable work by a remarkable man.
