Talk:The Cost of Discipleship

Republican party
This topic has an editorial paragraph about 'cheap grace' referring to politics with Republicans in the USA. It gives a link to an article on politics in Salon but there is nothing in this article that has anything to do with 'cheap grace'. This paragraph appears to be simply some unrelated soundbyte that is getting around the editing by providing some nonsense link that has no bearing on the subject. I deleted the paragraph and link, but it reappeared with no better justification, rewording, better link.

Since there is no reference to 'cheap grace' in the Salon link given, and the actual quote given in the questionable paragraph is not even from that link, I again feel that this is some political 'agenda' posting that has nothing to do with the topic it is posted in and believe that it should be removed. Agthorn (talk) 20:09, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * We do not use the term "USA" on Wikipedia. Please see WP:NOTUSA.
 * The article, http://www.salon.com/2012/08/05/republicans_slouching_toward_theocracy/, uses a function called progressive loading. Only part of the article is loaded when the URL is first called-up. A double horizontal rule is displayed at the point where the material has stopped loading. You must manually scroll to the "end of the article" for additional content to be retrieved and displayed. The statement is in the sixth paragraph, two below the double rules, and begins, "But there is another, uniquely religious aspect that also comes into play: the predilection of fundamentalist denominations to believe in practice, even if not entirely in theory, in the doctrine of “cheap grace,” a derisive term coined by the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer." The paragraph continues to discuss elements related to the topic. It also re-appears later in the article. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:26, 29 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Doesn't it seems disproportionate focus or undue weight for almost half of the article to be about the use of cheap grace as a talking about against Republicans, from 2016 on? A mention of that might be appropriate, but for a theological classic of this importance, the amount of space devoted to it here seems misleading. 49.176.13.140 (talk) 11:56, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

German Article
The German Wikipedia article for this book appears to be https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachfolge_(Bonhoeffer). So, it looks like there are two Wikidata objects for this book: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59756854 (from the German WP article) and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7727719 (from the English etc. WP article). Could someone who is familiar with Wikidata merge these two entries? 2001:16B8:646E:7A00:7D54:F5BE:F26E:33CD (talk) 16:18, 20 February 2022 (UTC)