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.

About the Author

Geffrey B. Kelly was professor of systematic theology and chairman of the Department of Religion at La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The former secretary and two-term president of the International Bonhoeffer Society's English Language Section, he also authored Liberating Faith: Bonhoeffer's Message for Today.

F. Burton Nelson (1924-2004) was research professor of Christian ethics at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois and former vice president of the English Language Section of the International Bonhoeffer Society. His other books include A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, edited with Geffrey B. Kelly.