Description
Costly Discipleship and Life Together: Recovering Bonhoeffer's Educational Vision
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is best known for his role in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and his subsequent execution at the hands of the Nazis. However, most of us are less familiar with his tireless work educating seminary students for a life of pastoral ministry--a role that occupied him for most of his adult life.
Anchored in a variety of influential lectures, personal letters, and major works such as The Cost of Discipleship and Life Together, this book attempts to recover a largely unexamined part of Bonhoeffer's life, exploring his philosophy and practice of theological education in his original context. It then builds on this foundation to address the drift toward increasingly impersonal educational models in our own day, affirming the value of personal, face-to-face seminary education for the health of pastors and churches.
Author: Paul R. House
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 04/30/2015
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.17w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781433545443
ISBN10: 1433545446
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Education
- Religion | Christian Living | Professional Growth
- Religion | Christian Education | General
About the Author
Paul R. House (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) has been a pastor-teacher in churches, Christian colleges, and seminaries for over 30 years. He has served as a department chair at Taylor University and Wheaton College, and as academic dean at Beeson Divinity School, where he currently teaches. He is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society and an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.