The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s most famous book is The Cost of Discipleship. The German title was Nachfolge, which means simply “Following” or “Discipleship.” We do not have web rights to reprint excerpts from the book, but you can read them on page 28 of both the original magazine and the reprint.

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Christian History originally published this article in Christian History Issue #32 in 1991]

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