From pacifist to co-conspiratorīonhoeffer was not raised in a particularly radical environment. One exception was theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was determined not only to refute this idea but also to topple Hitler, even if it meant killing him. So despondent had been the German people after the defeat of World War I and the subsequent economic depression that the charismatic Hitler appeared to be the nation's answer to prayer-at least to most Germans. Another pastor put it more succinctly: "Christ has come to us through Adolph Hitler." … Hitler is the way of the Spirit and the will of God for the German people to enter the Church of Christ." So spoke German pastor Hermann Gruner. It is because of Hitler that Christ, God the helper and redeemer, has become effective among us. "The time is fulfilled for the German people of Hitler. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate." "Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.
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