Hartley follows C. Vriezen here, who defines glory as “the radiant power of [God’s] Being, as it were the external manifestation of [God’s] mysterious holiness.”33 I suggest that the way forward is to perceive what lies behind both approaches. Despite the initial differences, there is a shared understanding of the glory of God as the extrinsic manifestation of the intrinsic. While some highlight God’s presence,34 others see the intrinsic glory as an attribute, or as some sort of summary of his attributes,
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