Showing results by author "Dietrich Bonhoeffer" in All Categories

What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, 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."

The role of personal prayer, worship in common, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple, almost biblical, words. Life Together is bread for all who are hungry for the real life of Christian fellowship.

Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book on the Psalms. What comfort is found in the Psalter? What praise, and what challenge? What threat? In Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, discover the richness this book of Scripture held for Bonhoeffer, and learn to pray psalms along with Christ.

Daily readings drawn from every century and every tradition of the Christian faith. Christianity through the ages... Ignatius, C.S. Lewis, John Calvin, Augustine, Catherine of Siena, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Polycarp, John Wesley, Karl Barth, and Billy Sunday. These names, and so many others, fill the pages of church history. Yet they remain strangers to most of us. How Great Is Our God will introduce you to Christianity’s most influential thinkers from every century and every tradition—modernized for today’s reader.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer fue un doctor en teología alemán de gran prominencia, quien vivió en los tiempos de Hitler. Mientras que la inmensa mayoría de los líderes eclesiásticos de su tiempo adoptaron una actitud pasiva—y hasta de apoyo—al régimen Nazi, Bonhoeffer se opuso poderosamente a éste. Estas acciones temerarias le costaron su encarcelamiento y posterior ejecución el 9 de abril de 1945. En este libro, Bonhoeffer explica con gran profundidad y erudición del Sermón del monte y otros pasajes en el Nuevo Testamento que definen lo que significa ser un verdadero discípulo.

There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ. No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human. These stirring words are among forty devotions that guide and inspire readers as they move thematically through the weeks of Advent and Christmas....

Andreas Fröhlich liest besinnliche Texte zum Advent. Neben dem Titel gebenden "Kommet, ihr Hirten" aus der Feder von Joseph Mohr enthält dieses Hörbuch viele weitere Texte berühmter Autoren. Religiös wird es auch mit Selma Lagerlöf und ihrer Erzählung "Flucht aus Ägypten" und Dietrich Bonhoeffers "Von guten Mächten". Besinnlich geht es zu bei Ernst Stadler und seinem "Gang im Schnee" und im Gedicht "Der Weihnachtsbaum" von Joachim Ringelnatz.