The Cost of Discipleship | Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship

Reading this work becomes essential for anyone who intends to reflect on the same question that guided Dietrich Bonhoeffer: what is Christianity? Or even: who is, in fact, Christ for us today?

Bonhoeffer's Discipleship highlights the need to criticize what he called cheap grace, which, instead of justifying the sinner, ends up justifying the sin. It is a stance that reverses the core of the Christian faith defended by the reformers, especially the doctrine of justification by faith through Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

For this reason, cheap grace is presented as the mortal enemy of the Church. Against it, Bonhoeffer directs his efforts, reaffirming the importance of an authentic Christian life, lived in community, in which discipleship is understood as a radical commitment of obedience to Christ.

This commitment involves not only the death of the old human being, but the total surrender of the disciple themselves, even when following Christ implies suffering and sacrifice.

Book Information

• Title: Discipleship
• Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Pages: 256
• Format: 21 x 14 x 1 cm
• Weight: 0.299 kg
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9788543301198
• Publisher: Mundo Cristão