Cheap and Costly Grace

Grace is not cheap but costly, costly for God and costly for man, but costly because it is unconditionally free: such is the grace by which we are justified in Christ Jesus. That is the theme which Karl Barth set himself to work out insistently and unambiguously in the famous second edition of his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, which had such a shattering effect on religion and theology between the two world wars, but which many people have recently picked out of the pages of Dietrich Bonhoeffer without adequately understanding it...