Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote this work when he was director of the Theological and Pastoral Training Seminary of the Confessing Church in Germany, under Hitler, in Finkenwalde (1935-1937). The first part is devoted to the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus' call to the disciples: “Follow me”. The second deals with the Church, starting with the apostle Paul. In this text, grace appears above all as a “costly” grace, which coincides with the trial and endurance of reality. This is Bonhoeffer's first and unforgettable theme which first struck his students. Bonhoeffer overturned all theological knowledge. The political situation demanded it; a new reflection on Christ too. Living as a Disciple is a book about the extraordinary and unheard of the evangelical call, against the bringing the Church into line by the Nazi regime. A call to follow Christ, not outside the world, but in his heart, even if this call is protesting.
This work is a new edition led by Henry Mottu, retranslated by Bernard Lauret from the new Bonhoeffer corpus published in Germany. Its title is modified in relation to the Prize of Grace , which previously designated this text in the various French editions.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau. A doctor of theology at the age of 21, he immediately expressed his opposition to the anti-Semitic measures of the Nazi regime. Banned from teaching and preaching, he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, then executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the author of several major works, including Resistance and Submission and On Community Life .
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