No twentieth-century Christian and no single monograph contributed more, it seems, to the recovery of the significance of discipleship than Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his Nachfolge (ET, The Cost of Discipleship).14 When we are called to follow Christ, we are summoned to an exclusive attachment to his person.… Discipleship means adherence to Christ, and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship.… Discipleship without Jesus Christ is a way of our own choosing.