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Why did Luther not say that discipleship is a corollary of grace?

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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For Luther’s life, justification by faith alone had to mean discipleship because he was in such tension with the existing order. “He always spoke as one who had be led by grace to the strictest following of Christ” (50).

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The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer