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“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.”
AUTHOR: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German
Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi and founding member of the
Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world
have become widely influential, and many have labelled his book The Cost of
Discipleship a modern classic.
Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer became known for his
staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. He strongly opposed Hitler's
euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was also involved
in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence
Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 by the
Gestapo and executed by hanging in April 1945 while imprisoned at a Nazi
concentration camp, just 23 days before the German surrender.
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