Commissioned by John Paul II for the Good Friday Way of the Cross in the Colosseum, this text, featuring illustrations by Christa-Maria Weber-Keimer, reveals the heart of Balthasar’s “kneeling theology”: the contemplation of Christ crucified. The Passion and Crucifixion, Balthasar shows, are expressions of the Son’s total self-surrender to the Father – a surrender enabling him to bear to the end both the sin of the world and the Godforsakenness that is due it.