“God’s glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of Himself.”5 To show the desperate need for more depth of definition, one need only combine Grudem’s definition with the first affirmation of the Westminster Shorter Catechism: “The chief end of man is to be a brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of Himself and to enjoy Him forever.”6 Words fall short, but not without reason. God’s glory is too active to be captured by a simplified, human-made compartmentalization. Indeed,