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Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer died a martyr’s death at the age of 39 but remains one of the most influential and challenging theologians of our time. His writings teach us the value of cross-centered theology, and his courageous actions against the Nazi regime compel us to consider the cost of discipleship. From Bonhoeffer we learn that the Christian life is lived both alone and together, and that there is...

So why all this emphasis on human weakness? Because human weakness paves the way for God’s grace. Human weakness leaves us unable—dependent on something beyond and outside us. Theologians use the word alien here, stressing that this something does not come from within, from the will to power, as Nietzsche so wrongly put it. But here’s the beauty of this idea. Paul puts a most surprising twist to all of this. For at one point in 1 Corinthians and at one point in 2 Corinthians he
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