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The cost of discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : Touchstone, (c)1995.Edition: first Touchstone editionDescription: 316 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780684815008
Uniform titles:
  • Nachfolge. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT380
  • BT380.B714.C678 1995
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Contents:
Grace and discipleship -- Costly grace -- call to discipleship -- Single-minded obedience -- Discipleship and the cross -- Discipleship and the individual -- sermon on the Mount -- Matthew 5 : of the "extraordinariness" of the Christian life -- beatitudes -- visible community -- righteousness of Christ -- brother -- Woman -- Truthfulness -- Revenge -- enemy, the "extraordinary" -- Matthew 6 : of the hidden character of the Christian life -- hidden righteousness -- hiddenness of prayer -- hiddenness of the devout life -- simplicity of the carefree life -- Matthew 7 : the separation of the disciple community -- disciple and unbelievers -- great divide -- conclusion -- messengers -- harvest -- apostles -- work -- suffering of the messengers -- decision -- fruit -- Church of Jesus Christ and the life of discipleship -- Preliminary questions -- Baptism -- body of Christ -- visible community -- saints -- image of Christ.
Summary: What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace."
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BT380.B67 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001635107
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BT380.B67 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001875943

Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1959.

Grace and discipleship -- Costly grace -- call to discipleship -- Single-minded obedience -- Discipleship and the cross -- Discipleship and the individual -- sermon on the Mount -- Matthew 5 : of the "extraordinariness" of the Christian life -- beatitudes -- visible community -- righteousness of Christ -- brother -- Woman -- Truthfulness -- Revenge -- enemy, the "extraordinary" -- Matthew 6 : of the hidden character of the Christian life -- hidden righteousness -- hiddenness of prayer -- hiddenness of the devout life -- simplicity of the carefree life -- Matthew 7 : the separation of the disciple community -- disciple and unbelievers -- great divide -- conclusion -- messengers -- harvest -- apostles -- work -- suffering of the messengers -- decision -- fruit -- Church of Jesus Christ and the life of discipleship -- Preliminary questions -- Baptism -- body of Christ -- visible community -- saints -- image of Christ.

What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace."

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