Bonhoeffer book

The book formerly called "The Cost of Discipleship" is now called "Discipleship" - https://www.logos.com/product/162882/discipleship I'm not sure when they added (Reader's Edition) but my guess is that this was done after the book was offered in audio format.

Anyhow, I have this book and can confirm that it is the same as the original "The Cost of Discipleship".

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For better or worse, publishers often pick the title they want when they see a work. In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer published a work in German called Nachfolge. After Bonhoeffer did indeed die as a result of living out what he understood as his calling as a Christian, this work was translated into English and published as The Cost of Discipleship with somewhat different organization of the chapters than the original. When the German critical edition of Bonhoeffer was translated into English, they decided to try to go with a more direct translation of the original title, as well as using the original chapter organization.

Discipleship as published by Fortress and republished in Logos edition has quite valuable footnotes that try to explain what Bonhoeffer was actually referencing in the theological discussion of his day. In addition it is part of a complete edition of Bonhoeffer that attempts to translate his theological vocabulary consistently. It is by far the best English edition for any form of Bonhoeffer studies. That said, The Cost of Discipleship has become a spiritual classic in some circles in English and to some extent has a life of its own at this point. While I personally am not intimidated by the scholarly apparatus, there are certainly some for whom this is not the case.

To not scare off readers who are not interested in the detailed scholarship, often there is a Readers Edition that is based on the full work, that removes some of the extensive critical apparatus, while giving more readers the same base text as scholars now use - often at a less scary price, since you do not have to pay for all the work that you do not have. It appears they have done this with Bonhoeffer. I have not used this, however, and so cannot say how well it suits any particular purpose. That said, I suspect it does it quite well for those who want to hear Bonhoeffer and not be dragged into the Book of Concord, Karl Barth, and the details behind Nazi church as the footnotes in the edition I have does.