The Cost of Moral Leadership: The Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In our current context, given what we are learning about the high cost of failed moral leadership, it is more urgent than ever to seek and study models for the formation of exceptional leaders. Readers who missed Burton Nelson and Geffrey Kelly's groundbreaking, insightful, painstakingly researched, and substantially encouraging study of what Dietrich Bonhoeffer teaches us about moral leadership when it was first published will be copiously rewarded by studying it now. This is a book to read for yourself and recommend to students, congregants, colleagues, and others whom you would like to draw into profound and fruitful meditation on Christian moral leadership.

Table of Contents
Foreword, by Renate Bethge
1. The Life and Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Chapter from the Modern Acts of the Apostles
2. Compassion and Action for Justice: Bonhoeffer's Christocentric Spirituality
3. The Holy Spirit and Christian Discipleship: The Prophetic Dimension of Moral Leadership
4. Bonhoeffer's Spirituality of Liberation: Solidarity with the Oppressed
5. The Spirituality That Dares Peace: The Great Venture in Moral Leadership
6. Discipleship and the Cross: Following Christ in Bonhoeffer's Spirituality
7. Christian Community: Strength for Moral Leadership
8. Bonhoeffer's Spirituality and God's Vulnerability: Compassion for Those in Suffering and Sorrow
9. Preaching the Spiritual Life: Bonhoeffer's Sermons and Insights on Moral Leadership
10. Glimpses into the Soul of a Moral Leader: Bonhoeffer's Prayers and Poems
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