The cross cannot be considered […] as one option among several in our attempts to see God. The cross shuts down alternatives. It destroys the wisdom of the wise. It blinds the sight of the theologian of glory. What is revealed is precisely that we don’t know God. Our problem is not that we lay claim to such little knowledge of God but that we think we know so much. So God hides from us. As with Moses, he puts his hand over our eyes. God refuses to be known according to the schemes of a theology of glory. What is vital here is absolute concentration on the rejected, crucified Jesus.
— Gerhard O. Forde, On Being a Theologian of the Cross (emphasis added)
