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Nachfolge
390 pages
A piercing, uncompromising call to strip away comfortable illusions and embrace a radically demanding, transformative faith.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like standing in a bracing, icy wind that strips away every comfortable illusion you hold about faith and duty. It is a steady, weighty text, demanding that you pause and wrestle with its uncompromising assertions. The mood is deeply solemn yet charged with a quiet, resolute urgency, born from the historical crucible of its writing. The prose is piercing and direct, refusing to let the reader hide behind theological platitudes. It challenges the soul, moving the reader from a state of spiritual complacency to a profound, almost daunting realization of what true commitment costs. This is a book for those who are tired of easy answers and yearn for a faith that demands everything, offering a transformative liberation in return.
- Mood
- solemn
- contemplative
- weighty
- resolute
- Tone
- earnest
- urgent
- uncompromising
- reverent
- challenging
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the cost of faith · cheap versus costly grace · radical obedience · spiritual integrity · moral resistance
- The writing
- Direct, piercing, and rhetorically powerful, blending theological rigor with pastoral urgency.
- The arc
- Moves from a comfortable, complacent understanding of faith to a profound, challenging, and ultimately liberating call to radical obedience.
- Who it's for
- Seekers and believers who are dissatisfied with superficial religion and crave a deeply demanding, authentic spiritual life.
Content notes
- references to martyrdom
- political oppression
- religious persecution
About the book
The Cost of Discipleship focuses on the most treasured part of Christ's teaching, the Sermon on the Mount with its call to discipleship, and the grace of God and the sacrifice which that demands. Viewed against the background of Nazi German, Bonhoeffer's book is striking enough. At the same time, it shares with many great Christian classics a quality of timelessness, so that it has spoken, and continues to speak powerfully, to the varied concerns of the contemporary world. Bonhoeffer's critique of 'cheap grace' and his insistence on 'costly grace' continue to influence many today who are engaged in the struggle for a more authentic Christian witness in the world... Certainly in South Africa, Bonhoeffer's influence in this regard has been considerable, both in the struggle against apartheid and now with the task of building a new and just democratic society. -- ‡c From the preface.
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