How They Died: The Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles…

In The Cost of Discipleship (1937), Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes that Christ invited St. Peter “to the supreme followship of martyrdom for the Lord he had denied … thereby forgiving him all his sins. In the life of Peter, grace and discipleship are inseparable.” In Bonhoeffer’s famous reckoning, this was a case of costly, as opposed to cheap, grace. Bonhoeffer, of course, would come to embody the former…

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