El precio de la gracia. El seguimiento (Verdad e Imagen) (Spanish Edition)

El libro nos muestra lo que es la llamada al seguimiento de Cristo. A Bonhoeffer le preocupa lo que puede significar esta realidad para todos los estamentos humanos. Partiendo de una base bíblica, ve el seguimiento de Cristo como la liberación del hombre con respecto a los preceptos humanos, a todo lo que oprime y agobia, a todo lo que preocupa y atormenta a la conciencia. En el seguimiento, los hombres abandonan el duro yugo de sus propias leyes para tomar el yugo suave de Jesús. La liberación plena del hombre para alcanzar la comunión con Jesús sólo es posible allí donde subsiste el precepto íntegro de Jesús y su llamada a seguirle sin reservas.

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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." With these words, in The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave powerful voice to the millions of Christians who believe personal sacrifice is an essential component of faith. Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian, was an exemplar of sacrificial faith: he opposed the Nazis from the first and was eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald and hung by the Gestapo in 1945. The Cost of Discipleship, first published in German in 1937, was Bonhoeffer's answer to the questions, "What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us to-day?" Bonhoeffer's answers are rooted in Lutheran grace and derived from Christian scripture (almost a third of the book consists of an extended meditation on the Sermon on the Mount). The book builds to a stunning conclusion: its closing chapter, "The Image of Christ," describes the believer's spiritual life as participation in Christ's incarnation, with a rare and epigrammatic confidence: "Through fellowship and communion with the incarnate Lord," Bonhoeffer writes, "we recover our true humanity, and at the same time we are delivered from that individualism which is the consequence of sin, and retrieve our solidarity with the whole human race." --Michael Joseph Gross