Book
The Cost of Discipleship
- Published
- 1937
- Genre
- Religion
- Publisher
- Scribner Paper Fiction
- Pages
- 320
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174834.The_Cost_of_Discipleship?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_26
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
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." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780020838500
- ISBN-10
- 0020838506
Tags
BibleMorality/EthicsReligion-ChristianitySocial IssuesTheology