Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Discipleship
Translated from the German Edition
Edited by
Martin Kuske† and Ilse Tödt
English Edition
Edited by
Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey
Translated by
Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, Volume 4
First Fortress Press paperback edition 2003
Originally published in German as Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, edited by Eberhard Bethge et al., by Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1989; Band 4 edited by Martin Kuske and Ilse Tödt. First English-language edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4, published by Fortress Press in 2001.
Nachfolge first published in German by Christian Kaiser Verlag in 1937. Original, abridged English-language edition of Nachfolge published in 1949 as The Cost of Discipleship by SCM Press Ltd., London, and the Macmillan Company, New York. Revised, unabridged edition of The Cost of Discipleship published in 1959 by SCM Press Ltd., London, and the Macmillan Company, New York. New English-language translation of Nachfolge with new supplementary material first published in 2001 by Fortress Press as part of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.
Copyright:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4: Copyright © 2001 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. New Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English-language translation of material first published as The Cost of Discipleship: Copyright © 1949, 1959, 2001 by Simon & Schuster Inc. and SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd. All rights reserved. All other material original to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works edition of Discipleship including the General Editor’s Foreword, Editor’s Introduction, abbreviations, bibliographies, indexes, and some notes: Copyright © 2001 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved.
Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without permission of the copyright holder. Write to permissions at: Augsburg Fortress, PO Box 1209, Minneapolis MN 55440; Simon & Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10020; SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd., 9-17 St. Albans Place, London N1 0NX, England.
Cover photo: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, August 1935. © Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus,
Gütersloh, Germany. Used by permission.
Jacket design: Cheryl Watson
Internal design: The HK Scriptorium, Inc.
ISBN 0-8006-8324-2
Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945.
[Nachfolge. English]
Discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer; translated from the German edition edited by Martin Kuske and Ilse Tödt; English edition edited by Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey; translated by Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss.
p. cm.—(Dietrich Bonhoeffer works; v. 4)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8006-8304-8 (alk. paper)
1. Sermon on the mount. I. Kelly, Geffrey B. II. Godsey, John D. III. Title.
BR45 .B6513 1996 vol. 4
[BT380]
230′.044 s—dc21
[241.5′3] 00-037627
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About Discipleship“Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace.” And with that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship). Originally published in 1937, it soon became a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous and criminal government. At its center stands an interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount: what Jesus demanded of his followers—and how the life of discipleship is to be continued in all ages of the post-resurrection church. “Every call of Jesus is a call to death,” Bonhoeffer wrote. His own life ended in martyrdom on April 9, 1945. Freshly translated from the German critical edition, Discipleship provides a more accurate rendering of the text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the meaning, context, and reception of this work and its attempt to resist the Nazi ideology then infecting German Christian churches. |
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