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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1937
A theological commentary on Christian discipleship and the Sermon on the Mount, exploring the distinction between 'cheap grace' and 'costly grace' and the demands of following Jesus in the modern world. Written by a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who resisted Nazi ideology.
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Cheap grace is the enemy of the Church; costly grace demands that we follow Christ through death of self into new life.
obedience-and-authority
let the Christian live like the rest of the world… not presumptuously aspire to live a different life under grace from his old life under sin
CD-RC-022An abstract Christology… render discipleship superfluous… essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ
CD-RC-034The peace of Jesus is the cross. But the cross is the sword God wields on earth. It creates division.
CD-RC-151faith-and-doubt
grace has ceased to be the gift of the living God… it is rather a general law, a divine principle, which only needs to be applied to particular cases
CD-RC-055it matters little what form of prayer we adopt… what matters is the faith which lays hold on God and touches the heart
CD-RC-112calling
he is openly ejected from his secular calling and enters upon a visible participation in the passion of his Lord
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