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"Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today
is for costly grace." And with that sharp warning to his own
church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official
nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book
Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship).
Originally published in 1937, it soon became a classic exposition
of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a
dangerous and criminal government. At its center stands an
interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount: what Jesus demanded of
his followers-and how the life of discipleship is to be continued
in all ages of the post- resurrection church. "Every call of Jesus
is a call to death," Bonhoeffer wrote. His own life ended in
martyrdom on April 9, 1945. Freshly translated from the German
critical edition, Discipleship provides a more accurate rendering
of the text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the
meaning, context, and reception of this work and its attempt to
resist the Nazi ideology then infecting German Christian churches.
Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer's earlier theological achievements and
writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that
electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.
The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge
in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a
wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, they
also introduced to a broad readership his novel and exciting ideas
of religionless Christianity, his open and honest theological
appraisal of Christian doctrines, and his sturdy, if sorely tried,
faith in face of uncertainty and doubt. This splendid volume, in
many ways the capstone of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, is the
first unabridged collection of Bonhoeffer's 19431945 prison letters
and theological writings. Here are over 200 documents that include
extensive correspondence with his family and Eberhard Bethge (much
of it in English for the first time), as well as his theological
notes, and his prison poems. The volume offers an illuminating
introduction by editor John de Gruchy and an historical Afterword
by the editors of the original German volume: Christian Gremmels,
Eberhard Bethge, and Renate Bethge.
"Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today
is for costly grace." And with that sharp warning to his own
church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official
nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book
Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship).
Originally published in 1937, it soon became a classic exposition
of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a
dangerous and criminal government. At its center stands an
interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount: what Jesus demanded of
his followersand how the life of discipleship is to be continued in
all ages of the post- resurrection church. "Every call of Jesus is
a call to death," Bonhoeffer wrote. His own life ended in martyrdom
on April 9, 1945. Freshly translated from the German critical
edition, Discipleship provides a more accurate rendering of the
text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the meaning,
context, and reception of this work and its attempt to resist the
Nazi ideology then infecting German Christian churches.
Sanctorum Communio was Bonhoeffer's dissertation, completed in 1927
and first published in 1930. In it he attempts to work out a
theology of the person in society, and then, particularly, in the
church. Along with enlightening us about his early positions on
sin, evil, solidarity, collective spirit, and collective guilt, the
volume unfolds a systematic theology of the Spirit at work in the
church and what this implies for questions of authority, freedom,
ritual, and eschatology. Here is offered the complete text in
translation, annotated by the German and American editors. The
historical context is explained and textual commentary is provided
in a Foreword and Afterword.
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