![]() From reading Metaxas’ biography (review coming next week) on Bonhoeffer, it may be the case that he didn’t reconcile these but simply saw this as a tragic necessity for which he was prepared to accept judgment not only by men but God.įinally, one of the striking themes of this book is the idea that discipleship is inescapably lived out in the visible community of the church. All the members of the Dead Theologians Society reading group struggled with reconciling what Bonhoeffer wrote about unreserved love for the enemy with his actions against Hitler. ![]() ![]() His chapter on “the enemy” was interesting in light of his eventual participation in an assassination plot against Hitler. In various ways, we want to follow “Jesus and”. The call is both a gracious call, one we need but don’t deserve, and a call to implicit, unqualified obedience in following Christ, as in the case of the rich young man. One of Bonhoeffer’s chapters is “The Call of Discipleship” and I think that may have been an even more appropriate title for the book. ![]() One thing is the theme of unqualified obedience to Christ. Rather, I thought I would comment on what I thought were some striking themes in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship(1937). I’m not going to attempt to “review” such a classic work. ![]() First published in 1937 under the title Nachfolge (Discipleship). The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 – 1945). ![]()
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