So, you can keep all that Diets, cause the truth is, grace is kind of cheap. free even.
Friday, December 3, 2010
No joke, this was my waking thought -
That Dietrich Bonhoeffer's tirade against 'cheap' grace, and love of 'costly' grace, is more a reflection on Bonhoeffer's typically german character than it is an insight into the truth of Christianity. I mean, come on, Germans love order, discipline and sacrifice so much. Bonhoeffer just directed these desires towards his religion.
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Maybe I have a Teutonic theological bent myself, but it seems to me that Bonhoeffer, a preacher not an evangelist, is speaking the truth established Christians need to hear, whereas you are speaking the truth non-Christians need to hear.
Also, I'm scandalously ill-read in DB, so I can't claim to really understand the cheap grace/costly grace dichotomy.
yes - the point of 'who was his audience' is a very important one. As always (damn you!) i concede that I have over-spoken and mis-represented the case.
haha. every time.
can you post something so I can criticize? pleeeaaasse?
ps. my favorite DB anecdote, which Zac pointed out to me one time - is that, in his collected letters, he often signs off with some pauline benediction (you know - 'grace and peace be with you all' etc) and then adds, 'ps. please send more cigarettes'.
love it.
also - nice use of 'teutonic'
. . . and please, for the love of God, send more cigarettes.
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