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The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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bookshelves: 2010, 2011, classic, prayer, non-fiction, religion, scripture, spiritual, theology, worth-reading-over-and-over, favorites
Jan 02, 2009
bookshelves: 2010, 2011, classic, prayer, non-fiction, religion, scripture, spiritual, theology, worth-reading-over-and-over, favorites
Recommended for:
EVERYONE!
Read from December 28 to 30, 2010
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read count: 2
Listened to the audio version of this book and found it very compelling. It challenged me in ways I didn't know I needed challenging, which is why it earns 5 stars from me. As a lifelong cultural Catholic and for the last twenty years (or so) actively striving-to-be-Christlike Catholic, I need books which help me to look at my faith from a fresh perspective.
Bonhoeffer's eclectic approach to the Gospels reminds me very much of his German compatriot and one of my other favorite authors, Pope Benedict XVI. The fact that they are both devout German Christians couldn't have anything to do with that ... could it?
Especially insightful in this text are Bonhoeffer's contrast between cheap and costly Grace; his exegesis on the encounters between Jesus and the Rich Young Man and others; and his challenges to our understanding of our own discipleship.
Highly recommended, especially in the audio format! I was reluctant to do anything else once I started listening.
Bonhoeffer's eclectic approach to the Gospels reminds me very much of his German compatriot and one of my other favorite authors, Pope Benedict XVI. The fact that they are both devout German Christians couldn't have anything to do with that ... could it?
Especially insightful in this text are Bonhoeffer's contrast between cheap and costly Grace; his exegesis on the encounters between Jesus and the Rich Young Man and others; and his challenges to our understanding of our own discipleship.
Highly recommended, especially in the audio format! I was reluctant to do anything else once I started listening.
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“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
“It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
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Jan 08, 2011 06:42AM
It's been a long time since I've read this, and I was on a different Christian path then, so it would be very interesting to listen to the audio at this point in my life. Glad to know about it.
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It has a prominent place on my 'worth-reading-over-and-over...' shelf! And yes the audio adds another dimension.
This will be my Lenten read for this year.
