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About Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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 Naz*s, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitlerr failed, he was hanged in April 1945.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic book on living as a Christian.
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the government worker? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."
The Cost of Discipleship 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 humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’ plot” to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
This expanded version of Letters and Papers from Prison shifts the emphasis of earlier editions of Bonhoeffer’s theological reflections to the private sphere of his life. His letters appear in greater detail and show his daily concerns. Letters from Bonhoeffer’s parents, siblings, and other relatives have also been added, in addition to previously inaccessible letters and legal papers referring to his trial.
Acute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human story of loss, of courage, and of hope. Bonhoeffer’s story seems as vitally relevant, as politically prophetic, and as theologically significant today, as it did yesterday.
The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. Although the author died before completing his work, this book is recognized as a major contribution to Christian ethics.
The root and ground of Christian ethics, the author says, is the reality of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. This reality is not manifest in the Church as distinct from the secular world; such a juxtaposition of two separate spheres, Bonhoeffer insists, is a denial of God’s having reconciled the whole world to himself in Christ. On the contrary, God’s commandment is to be found and known in the Church, the family, labor, and government. His commandment permits man to live as man before God, in a world God made, with responsibility for the institutions of that world.
While Bonhoeffer wrote with his own seminary community in mind, he intended Life Together to have a more universal impact, and spoke of a mission and responsibility of the church as a whole.
Using the acclaimed DBWE translation, adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett and an insightful introduction by Geffrey B. Kelly to clarify the theological meaning and social importance of Bonhoeffer’s work.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer fue un doctor en teología alemán de gran prominencia, quien vivió en los tiempos de Hitler. Mientras que la inmensa mayoría de los líderes eclesiásticos de su tiempo adoptaron una actitud pasiva —y hasta de apoyo— al régimen Nazi, Bonhoeffer se opuso poderosamente a éste, se atrevió a hablar públicamente en su contra, y predicó los principios establecidos por las Escrituras que respaldaban su mensaje; y ¡todo esto lo hizo dentro de Alemania! Estas acciones temerarias le costaron su encarcelamiento y posterior ejecución el 9 de abril de 1945, tan sólo a unos días de la derrota alemana.
Bonhoeffer escribió prolíficamente en su corta vida, pero este libro es una verdadera joya: explica con gran profundidad y erudición del Sermón del monte y otros pasajes claves en el Nuevo Testamento que definen lo que significa ser un verdadero discípulo de Jesús hoy: ¿Qué significa el llamado de Jesús para el hombre de negocios, el militar, el obrero o el erudito? ¿Qué fue lo que realmente Jesús quiso decir con sus enseñanzas? ¿Cuál es su voluntad para nosotros hoy? Bonhoeffer responde a estas y muchas otras preguntas y acuña los conceptos de «la gracia barata» y «la gracia costosa».
El libro ha sido traducido a multitud de idiomas y es considerado uno de los libros cristianos de más influencia en toda la historia. Su título en inglés, The Cost of Discipleship ha vendido cientos de miles de copias y ha sido uno de los libros más apreciados desde el siglo XX.
La versión aquí presentada es única, jamás antes publicada en español: magistralmente traducida directamente del alemán por Eliud A. Montoya (en su versión completa, los 32 capítulos), quien además incluyó notas explicativas para clarificar las ideas profundas del autor e información que nos lleva a un mejor entendimiento de todo el libro.
Mediante este libro usted aprenderá:
- El significado hoy de «la gracia barata» en contraposición con «la gracia costosa» (conceptos acuñados por el propio Bonhoeffer).
- Todo lo circundante al llamado de los discípulos de Jesús
- Lo que significa la cruz para los discípulos
- El discipulado como algo netamente individual
- La explicación de las bienaventuranzas de Mateo 5
- La orden de Jesús en cuanto a nuestra relación con el prójimo
- La ley de Jesús en cuanto al adulterio
- La ley de Jesús en cuanto al juramento
- Lo referente a la justicia y al castigo del agresor
- En cuanto a las prácticas ocultas de la vida cristiana
- El discípulo y su relación con los incrédulos
- Las funciones y responsabilidades del discípulo
- Los sufrimientos del discípulo
- Las recompensas del discípulo
- La iglesia y el discipulado: los sacramentos
- El significado más profundo del bautismo en agua
- El significado del cuerpo de Cristo
- Lo que imagen de Cristo significa para el cristiano de hoy
Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book on the Psalms.
What comfort is found in the Psalter? What praise, and what challenge? What threat? In the pages of Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, discover the richness this book of Scripture held for Bonhoeffer, and learn to pray psalms along with Christ.
First published in 1940, this classic reveals how the Psalms are essential to the life of the believer and offers Bonhoeffer's reflections on psalms of thanksgiving, suffering, guilt, praise, and lament. Now with an introduction by Walter Brueggemann and excerpts from the Psalms, Bonhoeffer's timeless work offers contemporary readers ancient wisdom and resources for the living of these days. Includes a biographical sketch of Bonhoeffer written by his friend and biographer Eberhard Bethge.
Enthält folgende Texte Bonhoefffers: Nach zehn Jahren, Traupredigt aus der Zelle, Gebete für Gefangene, Weihnachtsgruß (1943), Gedanken zum Tauftag von Diedrich Wilhelm Rüdiger Bethge (Mai 1944), Meditationen zu den Herrnhuter Losungen, Gedicht "Vergangenheit", Gedicht "Glück und Unglück", Ausarbeitung über die erste Tafel der zehn Worte Gottes, Gedicht "Wer bin ich?", Gedicht "Christen und Heiden", Gedicht "Nächtliche Stimmen", Entwurf für eine Arbeit, Gedicht "Stationen auf dem Wege zur Freiheit", Gedicht "Der Freund", Gedichte "Der Tod des Mose" und "Jona", Gedicht "Von guten Mächten".
This splendid volume, in some ways the capstone of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, presents the full array of Bonhoeffer’s 1943–1945 prison letters and theological writings. Using the acclaimed DBWE translation, adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett and an insightful introduction by John W. de Gruchy to clarify the theological meaning and social importance of Bonhoeffer’s prison writings.
This collection of inspirational writings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer is drawn from his many works and presented here as a series of daily meditations to last throughout the year. Organized under monthly themes, these prayers, sermons, meditations, letters, and notes offer readers a new glimpse at how Bonhoeffer understood the meaning of faith and discipleship. Featuring selections from classic works such as The Cost of Discipleship and Letters and Papers from Prison, this set of writings follows the church year, making it ideal for year-long devotional use by readers seeking to be challenged and enlightened by Bonhoeffer's call to find God at the center of their lives.
Creation and Fall originated in lectures given by Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1932--33 during the demise of the Weimar Republic and the birth of the Third Reich. In the course of these events, Bonhoeffer called his students to focus their attention on the word of God the word of truth in a time of turmoil.
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