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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

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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.

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The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer