of Christ’s cross led to far-reaching, even paradoxical, qualifications to the Christian understanding of omnipotence. True, God is the God who raises the dead. This aspect of God’s sovereignty is central to the Christian gospel. That God’s way is not that of brute force and overweening power, but rather that of grace and love, is one of the main ways in which the more obvious sense of God’s power over all things gets refined and spiritualized in Christianity. This is just as well, since notions