This book is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian civic duty.
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Width: 140 mm
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978-0-684-81500-8 (9780684815008)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau in 1906. The son of a famous German psychiatrist, he studied in Berlin and New York City. He left the safety of America to return to Germany and continue his public repudiation of the Nazis, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitler failed, he was hanged in April 1945.
ERIC METAXAS is an author whose books have been translated into twenty-five languages. The host of a nationally syndicated radio show and the acclaimed conversation series Socrates in the City, he is a prominent cultural commentator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives with his family in New York City.
Contents
Foreword by Bishop G. K. A. Bell
Memoir by G. Leibholz
Introduction
I GRACE AND DISCIPLESHIP
1 Costly Grace
2 The Call to Discipleship
3 Single-Minded Obedience
4 Discipleship and the Cross
5 Discipleship and the Individual
II THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5: Of the "Extraordinariness" of the Christian Life
6 The Beatitudes
7 The Visible Community
8 The Righteousness of Christ
9 The Brother
10 Woman
11 Truthfulness
12 Revenge
13 The Enemy -- the "Extraordinary"
Matthew 6: Of the Hidden Character of the Christian Life
14 The Hidden Righteousness
15 The Hiddenness of Prayer
16 The Hiddenness of the Devout Life
17 The Simplicity of the Carefree Life
Matthew 7: The Separation of the Disciple Community
18 The Disciple and Unbelievers
19 The Great Divide
20 The Conclusion
III THE MESSENGERS
21 The Harvest
22 The Apostles
23 The Work
24 The Suffering of the Messengers
25 The Decision
26 The Fruit
IV THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE LIFE OF DISCIPLESHIP
27 Preliminary Questions
28 Baptism
29 The Body of Christ
30 The Visible Community
31 The Saints
32 The Image of Christ
Index of Subjects
Index of Biblical References
