How long does it take to read The Cost of Discipleship?
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1928. 285 pages, about 78,375 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Cost of Discipleship focuses on the most treasured part of Christ's teaching, the Sermon on the Mount with its call to discipleship, and the grace of God and the sacrifice which that demands. Viewed against the background of Nazi German, Bonhoeffer's book is striking enough. At the same time, it shares with many great Christian classics a quality of timelessness, so that it has spoken, and continues to speak powerfully, to the varied concerns of the contemporary world. Bonhoeffer's critique of 'cheap grace' and his insistence on 'costly grace' continue to influence many today who are engaged in the struggle for a more authentic Christian witness in the world . . . Certainly in South Africa, Bonhoeffer's influence in this regard has been considerable, both in the struggle against apartheid and now with the task of building a new and just democratic society. -- ‡c From the preface.
Subjects: Bekennende Kirche authors, Christian life, Criticism, interpretation, Sermon on the mount, Vie chrétienne, Théologie pratique
