Dietrich Bonhoeffer. New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1998. 309 pp. (paperback).
This book was written approximately six decades ago, but it is quite relevant today. The author condemns a “cheap grace” and an “easy Christianity” that are so prevalent in contemporary church life.
The chief sentence in the book is: “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Bonhoeffer strongly opposed Hitler’s German regime and paid for his commitment with imprisonment and, ultimately, his life in 1945 at age 39. This noted pastor and theologian wrote prolifically, but this work has proven to be his most popular one.
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