The Cost of Discipleship
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- Started reading:
- 5th April 2007
- Finished reading:
- 5th May 2007
Review
Rating: 10
This was an amazing book filled with fundamental Christian theology, teaching on living as a disciple of Christ. Bonhoeffer emphasises the cost of discipleship, in that following Christ necessarily involves giving up your life. He certainly lived these principles as he was executed by the Nazi’s near the end of World War II for his teachings. Bonhoeffer thoroughly explores discipleship, suffering, obedience, the cross, the individual, and the church as well as providing the most in-depth study of the sermon on the mount that I have ever read. Of exceptional note is the complete absence of anecdotes and personal experience. Bonhoeffer draws solely on the Bible. The book was extremely dense and will require a second and third read in the future in order to gain a better understanding of some of the things he was writing about, but I found the book to be profound and I will continue to reflect on and be affected by my first read.
