Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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Original title | Nachfolge |
Translator | Reginald H. Fuller |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
1937 |
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The Cost of Discipleship is a book by the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, considered a classic of Christian thought. The original German title is simply Nachfolge (literally: 'following' or: 'the act of following'). It is centered on an exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, in which Bonhoeffer spells out what he believes it means to follow Christ. It was first published in 1937, when the rise of the Nazi regime was underway in Germany and it was against this background that Bonhoeffer's theology of costly discipleship developed, which ultimately led to his death.
One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and author. In this New York Times best-selling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer’s life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil.
Summary[edit]
One of the most quoted parts of the book deals with the distinction which Bonhoeffer makes between 'cheap' and 'costly' grace. According to Bonhoeffer,
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cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Cheap grace, Bonhoeffer says, is to hear the gospel preached as follows: 'Of course you have sinned, but now everything is forgiven, so you can stay as you are and enjoy the consolations of forgiveness.' The main defect of such a proclamation is that it contains no demand for discipleship. In contrast to costly grace, Spongebob squarepants racers revolution game.
costly grace confronts us as a gracious call to follow Jesus, it comes as a word of forgiveness to the broken spirit and the contrite heart. It is costly because it compels a man to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: 'My yoke is easy and my burden is light.'
Bonhoeffer argues that as Christianity spread, the Church became more 'secularised', accommodating the demands of obedience to Jesus to the requirements of society. In this way, 'the world was Christianised, and grace became its common property.' But the hazard of this was that the gospel was cheapened, and obedience to the living Christ was gradually lost beneath formula and ritual, so that in the end, grace could literally be sold for monetary gain.
But all the time, within the church, there had been a living protest against this process: the monastic movement. This served as a 'place where the older vision was kept alive.' Unfortunately, 'monasticism was represented as an individual achievement which the mass of the laity could not be expected to emulate'; the commandments of Jesus were limited to 'a restricted group of specialists' and a double standard arose: 'a maximum and a minimum standard of church obedience.' This was dangerous, Bonhoeffer says, because whenever the church was accused of being too worldly, it could always point to monasticism as 'the opportunity of a higher standard within the fold - and thus justify the other possibility of a lower standard for others.' So the monastic movement, instead of serving as a pointer for all Christians, became a justification for the status quo.
Bonhoeffer remarks how this was rectified by Luther at the Reformation, when he brought Christianity 'out of the cloister.' However, he thinks that subsequent generations have again cheapened the preaching of the forgiveness of sins, and this has seriously weakened the church: 'The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organised church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy of making grace available to all at too low a cost. We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, we baptised, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation without condition. Our humanitarian sentiment made us give that which was holy to the scornful and unbelieving.. But the call to follow Jesus in the narrow way was hardly ever heard.'
Influence[edit]
Eberhard Bethge has argued that Bonhoeffer's writings, which culminated in the Ethics and Letters and Papers from Prison, form a seamless continuity, stretching back at least as far as The Cost of Discipleship.
Odbc driver manager error. Unlike Bonhoeffer's later writings, The Cost of Discipleship has been widely read by both conservative and liberal Christians and is still read and quoted today.[citation needed]
The term 'cheap grace' was coined by The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., then-pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, NY. Bonhoeffer attended the church when at Union Theological Seminary, and for a season taught Sunday School there. Bonhoeffer benefited from the protest culture of the African American church and gleaned from it social gospel elements that he would take with him back to Germany. The anti-temporal power ethic would aid him to resist the Nazi regime.[citation needed]
The notion of cheap grace has been used by Mike Lofgren to criticize the increasing dominance of the Christian right over the Republican Party coupled with what he saw as an increasing disregard within the party for other values:[1]
But there is another, uniquely religious aspect that also comes into play: the predilection of fundamentalist denominations to believe in practice, even if not entirely in theory, in the doctrine of “cheap grace,” a derisive term coined by the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By that he meant the inclination of some religious adherents to believe that once they had been “saved,” not only would all past sins be wiped away, but future ones, too—so one could pretty much behave as before. Cheap grace is a divine get-out-of-jail-free card. Hence, the tendency of the religious base of the Republican Party to cut some slack for the peccadilloes of candidates who claim to have been washed in the blood of the Lamb and reborn to a new and more Christian life. The religious right is willing to overlook a politician’s individual foibles, no matter how poor an example he or she may make, if they publicly identify with fundamentalist values.
Similarly, Katelyn Beaty of Christianity Today warned against the Christian use of cheap grace in excusing powerful men guilty of sexual assault.[2]
References[edit]
- ^Mike Lofgren. 'GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party'. Salon. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
- ^Beaty, Katelyn. 'The Mistake Christians Made in Defending Bill O’Reilly.'New York Times. 2 May 2017. 2 May 2017.
Bibliography[edit]
- Bethge, Eberhard. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Man of Vision, Man of Courage. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. BX 4827.B57B43
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Cost of Discipleship. New York: Macmillan, 1966. BT 380.B66 1966
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Eberhard Bethge, ed. Ethics. New York: Macmillan, 1955. BJ 1253.B615 1955a
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Eberhard Bethge ed. Letters and Papers from Prison. New York: Macmillan, 1972, c1971. BX 4827.B57A43 1972a
- De Gruchy, John W. The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. New York: Cambridge University press, 1999. BX4827.B57C36 1999
- Feil, Ernst. The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985. BX 4827.B57F4413 1985
- Floyd, Wayne Whitson Jr., ed. Theology and the Practice of Responsibility: Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994. BX 4827.B57T47 1994
- Woelfel, James W. Bonhoeffer’s Theology: Classical and Revolutionary. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970. BX 4827.B57W6 1970
- Clingan, Ralph Garlin. 'Against Cheap Grace in a World Come of Age.' Peter Lang Publishing Co. 2002
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✏Book Title : Ethics
✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Fortress Press
✏Release Date : 2005
✏Pages : 593
✏ISBN : 0800683064
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✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Fortress Press
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✏Ethics Book Summary : Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly translated and annotated, this crown jewel of Bonhoeffer's body of work is the culmination of his theological and personal odyssey.
✏Book Title : Meditating on the Word
✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
✏Release Date : 2000
✏Pages : 136
✏ISBN : 9781561011841
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French
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✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
✏Release Date : 2000
✏Pages : 136
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✏Meditating on the Word Book Summary : Now back in print, this collection of Bonhoeffer's writings, sermons, and letters on meditation reveals his deep love for the Bible as a focus for his prayer life and a support in his courageous political life.
✏Book Title : Bonhoeffer
✏Author : Clifford J. Green
✏Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
✏Release Date : 1999
✏Pages : 392
✏ISBN : 0802846327
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✏Author : Clifford J. Green
✏Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
✏Release Date : 1999
✏Pages : 392
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✏Bonhoeffer Book Summary : The classic study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's social thought, now expanded with never-before-published Bonhoeffer letters. Widely acclaimed as the best study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's early social theology, Clifford Green's Bonhoeffer is here fully updated and expanded with new material not available anywhere else. Features of this new edition: A selection of important, newly discovered letters between Bonhoeffer and Paul Lehmann and between Lehmann and members of Bonhoeffer's family. An extensive chapter covering Bonhoeffer's Ethics. All citations updated to the new German and English editions of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.
✏Book Title : Radical Integrity
✏Author : Michael Van Dyke
✏Publisher : Barbour Publishing
✏Release Date : 2012-06-01
✏Pages : 208
✏ISBN : 9781620294000
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✏Author : Michael Van Dyke
✏Publisher : Barbour Publishing
✏Release Date : 2012-06-01
✏Pages : 208
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✏Radical Integrity Book Summary : You’ll be inspired by this story of a German pastor and theologian who gave his life to oppose Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. Born into a prominent German family, Dietrich Bonhoeffer died in a Nazi prison camp, hanged for his plot against the man who’d plunged the world into war. Find out what made Dietrich Bonhoeffer the man he was—compassionate minister, brilliant thinker, opponent of the heresies of Nazism and Aryan superiority. This easy-to-read biography details both Bonhoeffer’s life and his powerful theology—of “cheap” versus “costly” grace.
✏Book Title : Psalms
✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Augsburg Books
✏Release Date : 1974
✏Pages : 86
✏ISBN : 1451406797
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French
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✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Augsburg Books
✏Release Date : 1974
✏Pages : 86
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✏Psalms Book Summary : The author explains one of his secrets behind the powerful witness of his own life--that he had learned to pray the Psalms and from them drew on the power of God in his years of imprisonment--in a new edition that includes a brief biographical sketch by a friend and biographer of the author, which helps us understand the man who used the Psalms as his prayer book. Original.
✏Book Title : Bonhoeffer
✏Author : Eric Metaxas
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✏Release Date : 2011-08-29
✏Pages : 624
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✏Bonhoeffer Book Summary : WHO BETTER TO FACE THE GREATEST EVIL OF THE 20TH CENTURY THAN A HUMBLE MAN OF FAITH? As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and author. In this New York Times best-selling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer’s life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer’s heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler’s Germany, and sheds new light on Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in “Operation 7,” the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland. In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents?including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts?to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen. 'Bonhoeffer is the story of a life framed by a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil. Includes Readers’ Guide “[A] beautifully constructed biography.” —Alan Wolfe, The New Republic “Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer’s story with passion and theological sophistication. . . .” —Wall Street Journal “[A] weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. . . .” —Publishers Weekly “Metaxas presents Bonhoeffer as a clear-headed, deeply convicted Christian who submitted to no one and nothing except God and his Word.” —Christianity Today “Metaxas has written a book that adds a new dimension to World War II, a new understanding of how evil can seize the soul of a nation and a man of faith can confront it. . . .” —Thomas Fleming, author, The New Dealers’ War “Metaxas has created a biography of uncommon power—intelligent, moving, well researched,vividly written, and rich in implication for our own lives. Or to put it another way: Buy this book. Read it. Then buy another copy and give it to a person you love. It’s that good.” —Archbishop Charles Chaput, First Things 'A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the 21st century.' —Kirkus Reviews 2011 ECPA Book of the Year 2011 Canterbury Medal by the Becket Fund recognizing courage in the defense of religious liberty 2011 Christopher Award winner highlighting the power of faith, courage, and action 'A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the 21st century.' -Kirkus Reviews
✏Book Title : The Cost of Discipleship
✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Simon and Schuster
✏Release Date : 1995-09
✏Pages : 316
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✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Simon and Schuster
✏Release Date : 1995-09
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✏The Cost of Discipleship Book 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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✏Book Title : Bonhoeffer and Continental Thought
✏Author : Brian Gregor
✏Publisher : Indiana University Press
✏Release Date : 2009
✏Pages : 252
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✏Author : Brian Gregor
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✏Release Date : 2009
✏Pages : 252
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✏Book Title : My Dearest Dietrich
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✏My Dearest Dietrich Book Summary : A staggering love illuminating the dark corners of a Nazi prison Renowned German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is famous for his resistance to the Nazi regime and for his allegiance to God over government. But what few realize is that the last years of his life also held a love story that rivals any romance novel. Maria von Wedemeyer knows the realities of war. Her beloved father and brother have both been killed on the battlefield. The last thing this spirited young woman needs is to fall for a man under constant surveillance by the Gestapo. How can she give another piece of her heart to a man so likely to share the same final fate? Yet when Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an old family friend, comes to comfort the von Wedemeyers after their losses, she discovers that love isn't always logical. Dietrich himself has determined to keep his distance from romantic attachments. There is too much work to be done for God, and his involvement in the conspiracy is far too important. But when he encounters a woman whose intelligence and conviction match his own, he's unprepared for how easy it is to give away his heart. With their deep love comes risk--and neither Dietrich nor Maria is prepared for just how great that risk soon becomes. Based on detailed historical research, this true love story is at once beautiful and heartrending. My Dearest Dietrich sheds new light on a world-famous theologian . . . and the woman who changed his life.
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✏Book Title : Letters and Papers from Prison
✏Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
✏Publisher : Fortress Press
✏Release Date : 2010
✏Pages : 750
✏ISBN : 9781451406788
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✏Letters and Papers from Prison Book Summary : 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 1943¿1945 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.