Postmodernist critics claim that religion is nothing more than a manifestation of power: the cultural power of privileged groups and the individual’s will to personal power. Such a critique is surely unfair and reductionistic, but the theology of glory is indeed about power. The theology of the cross, by contrast, with its radical rejection of human power and God’s rejection of His own power in His incarnation and crucifixion, is the definitive answer to the postmodernist critiques of Christianity.
