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Why wasn’t Luther’s pecca fortiter an example of cheap grace according to Bonhoeffer?
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If one assumes that pecca fortiter is a premise of the doctrine of justification by grace alone, then it is cheap grace indeed. However, if taken as the conclusion of a lived life of discipleship, then it represents the intense honesty of a man struggling to be a true disciple.
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer