The Cost of Discipleship- Book version

Levi, this book (in German titled "Nachfolge") has been published in English sometimes under the title "discipleship" and sometimes under the title "The Cost of Discipleship". It's the exact same book - possibly even the same translation - just with another title. There are no two different books about discipleship by Bonhoeffer, there is only one and this is it.

Levi Mayo

@NB.Mick Actually, there are two different books. The Cost of Discipleship is all a commentary on the Book of Matthew and how Bonhoeffer views Matthew as a way to show what discipleship is and what the cost of it is. Discipleship as the book is Bonhoeffer's entire writing on the issue of discipleship and is part of a set of different books.

https://www.logos.com/product/39939/dietrich-bonhoeffer-works-vol-4-discipleship?queryId=c6c7e4958dd1f79ab564c9b650e13c5d- This is the book you are talking about.

https://www.logos.com/product/43640/the-cost-of-discipleship?queryId=deea0250be00f68870421fc7a10875a2 This is the book I want in an electronic and reading format.

NB.Mick

@Levi Mayo : I still am curious why you would think there are two books. The audio book in Logos even says on its product page that the text edition would be vol. 4 of DBW!

I was tempted to buy the audio just to make sure, but on German Amazon I found the same audio book with a sample audio, which contained the front matter. This states that Paul Michael is reading the 1959 MacMillan edition, copyrighted by SCM Press. This edition can be found as PDF on the web (yes, the audio sample reads this word for word), and the full front matter in the PDF explicitly states that it is a translation of Bonhoeffers 1937 work "Nachfolge", published by Chr. Kaiser, Munich.

The Logos edition of DBW4 "Discipleship" (which by the way is the identical text as the "Discipleship Reader's Edition" in Logos) has the following front matter:

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, Volume 4
First Fortress Press paperback edition 2003
Originally published in German as Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, edited by Eberhard Bethge et al., by Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1989; Band 4 edited by Martin Kuske and Ilse Tödt. First English-language edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4, published by Fortress Press in 2001.
Nachfolge first published in German by Christian Kaiser Verlag in 1937. Original, abridged English-language edition of Nachfolge published in 1949 as The Cost of Discipleship by SCM Press Ltd., London, and the Macmillan Company, New York. Revised, unabridged edition of The Cost of Discipleship published in 1959 by SCM Press Ltd., London, and the Macmillan Company, New York. New English-language translation of Nachfolge with new supplementary material first published in 2001 by Fortress Press as part of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.
Copyright:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4: Copyright © 2001 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. New Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English-language translation of material first published as The Cost of Discipleship: Copyright © 1949, 1959, 2001 by Simon & Schuster Inc. and SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd. All rights reserved. All other material original to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works edition of Discipleship including the General Editor’s Foreword, Editor’s Introduction, abbreviations, bibliographies, indexes, and some notes: Copyright © 2001 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved.

More references to that book having been published under the title "The Cost of Discipleship" are in the editorial preface as well as in the section "Chronology of Discipleship". The Logos edition is the same book with the same content - however, it's a different translation as the 1959 edition.

Levi Mayo

I apologize. I did not realize both were the same book. I thought it was a different book than "The Cost of Discipleship." I apologize and thank you for correcting my error.