Dorothee Sölle's work, as she herself and her reception emphasize, is consistently written from a critical stance toward authority and with a perspective from marginalized groups. Accordingly, the lecture critically analyzes the concepts of power in Sölle's work against the backdrop of the issues raised by the ForuM study on sexualized violence and abuses of power in the Protestant Church in Germany (2024). The lecture first introduces the topic of taking a critical look at power and then presents the outlines of the methodology of a power-sensitive hermeneutics that have become necessary as a result of the ForuM study. Excerpts from Sölle's work, especially from her public speeches, are then examined in light of this hermeneutics with regard to explicit conceptions of power and implicit power dynamics inherent in the works and their contexts. The thesis here is that, on the one hand, Sölle always understands power from a position of criticism of power. However, she focuses this criticism on specific topics, namely patriarchal notions of omnipotence. Hence, on the other hand, certain dynamics of ecclesiastical and theological action are accepted unquestioningly in their power structures by Sölle. Finally, the consequences of this attitude for theological thinking within the framework of a power-sensitive hermeneutics are highlighted.