In the late 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, then the most promising Protestant theologian in Germany, wrote a book entitled in English The Cost of Discipleship. Several years afterward he was arrested and ...

In a 2002 speech in Berlin thanking Germany for its support of the war on terrorism, President George W. Bush invoked none other than the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He compared the fight ...

"Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the ...

The Battle for Bonhoeffer Debating Discipleship in the Age of Trump by Stephen R. Haynes Eerdmans, 208 pp., $19.99 You can tell a lot about people by their heroes. After all, people model themselves ...

The November release of a major motion picture on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has reignited a long-simmering battle between those who seek to learn from Bonhoeffer's life and those who seek to use ...

The theologian set aside his nearly finished magnum opus while in prison, investing instead in creative writing. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” “A Christian’s secular vocation ...

I’m reading Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship along with our Lenten Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount. I’m not sure when I last spent any time with this Christian classic (25 years, 35 years?).

Foremost among the theological influences on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s generation was the development of the Confessing Church. German Protestant Christianity was not a particularly likely place for ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, wrote a series of reflections on the Sermon on the Mount entitled The Cost of Discipleship, in which he maintained that discipleship requires us to ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the world's great theologians, died at age 39 on a Nazi gallows, stripped of clothes and dignity, his death unknown to his family until three months later. They never found ...