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The Cost of Discipleship
Reflections on the Sermon on the Mount
Originally published 1937
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A reflection on the Sermon on the Mount that explores the distinction between cheap grace and costly grace, and what Bonhoeffer understood as the demands of following Jesus.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote this work in 1937 while living under the Nazi regime in Germany. Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7), he examines what it means to follow Jesus, arguing that grace is not a possession to be used but a call to be obeyed. The book is divided into two parts: an extended meditation on the Sermon on the Mount and a section on the concrete demands of discipleship. It has been widely read within Lutheran, Reformed, and ecumenical traditions.
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