Summer Reading Challenge Give-away!If you would like to own this book post a comment and let me know. Please let me know how to contact you (either a blog link or an email address). I'll select a winner sometime on Wednesday - to be safe comment by Tuesday midnight if you want to be considered.
You must be a participant in the challenge - defined by having added your link to Mr. Linky or commented to the original post. It doesn't matter WHEN you sign up - you just need to be a participant. If you aren't a participant now, and would like to be, click above and go sign up. ::snort::
I'll mail this book domestically or internationally.
*The Cost of Discipleship* by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A brand new copy. I ordered it and then remembered that I'd assigned it to the boys and we already had a copy. I really need to get that database set up. LOL
From the back of the book:
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the solider, the laborer or the aristocrat? 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 gift 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 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 American to return to Germany and continue his public repudiation of the Nazis, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitler failed, he was hanged in April 1945.
This is not an easy read, but since reading the biography I posted about earlier, I'm determined to read through some of Bonhoeffer's writings. LOL
5 comments:
I would like to read this book, but the library has 4 copies so I don't need to own it.
And really, I was hoping that you would reward us voracious readers with a MAID or something. The last thing I need is ANOTHER BOOK. I need someone to come clean my front porch for Lisa or make some scrapbook pages for Cynthia. I've read so many books this summer that I'm embarrassed! (but not embarrassed enough to stop reading & clean the porch!)
Well - Liz - for those who would LIKE to OWN the book - this is their chance. LOL I can't do much about the maid and the ready made scrapbooks! ::snort::
I'm liking the maid idea. :-)
I'd love to be entered to win this book!
And ...the maid idea is winning bonus points with me too ;0
Sheryl - at this point you are the only applicant so you have a good chance. Poor Liz and Jen are going to be waiting a while for a maid to show up in the giveaway! ::snort::
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