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We all...need...to keep the clean sea breeze of the
centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by
reading the old books." - C. S. Lewis
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Description
Wilberforce’s classic work,
A Practical View of Christianity, is concerned with convincing
those who call themselves Christians to pursue "the real nature and
principles of the religion which they profess." Christianity is not a
mere morality, to be held in private. Christianity is revelation from
God, bringing new rights and correspondent duties. It is an entire way
of life that requires diligence and study and that should affect every
aspect of the Christian’s public and private life.
This addition to the Hendrickson Christian Classics
series has been completely retypeset. An index, explanatory notes,
scripture references, translations of Latin phrases, bibliographic
information, and other helps ensure that this work will be as valuable
to today’s reader as it was to those readers who made A Practical
View of Christianity a bestseller for fifty years.
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Book
Description
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come
and die." With these words, in The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich
Bonhoeffer gave powerful voice to the millions of Christians who believe
personal sacrifice is an essential component of faith. Bonhoeffer, a
German Lutheran pastor and theologian, was an exemplar of sacrificial
faith: he opposed the Nazis from the first and was eventually imprisoned
in Buchenwald and hung by the Gestapo in 1945. The Cost of Discipleship,
first published in German in 1937, was Bonhoeffer's answer to the questions,
"What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us to-day?"
Bonhoeffer's answers are rooted in Lutheran grace and derived from Christian
scripture (almost a third of the book consists of an extended meditation
on the Sermon on the Mount). The book builds to a stunning conclusion:
its closing chapter, "The Image of Christ," describes the
believer's spiritual life as participation in Christ's incarnation,
with a rare and epigrammatic confidence: "Through fellowship and
communion with the incarnate Lord," Bonhoeffer writes, "we
recover our true humanity, and at the same time we are delivered from
that individualism which is the consequence of sin, and retrieve our
solidarity with the whole human race." |
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