And yet, as a theological formulation, Luther’s way of making the cross foundational to all of theology would soon be supplanted by more “glorious” approaches to God, even in Protestantism. In place of Christ on the cross, the central principle of Calvinism—in its own words—is “the glory of God.” This, ironically, ran parallel to the mind-set of the Counter-Reformation, with the Jesuit slogan, “To the greater glory of God.”
