a saviour of the sick, a tortured human body on Golgotha. It is in this bodily form of Christ’s that God brings about the reconciliation of the world (Rom. 8:3). In his taking flesh, exploited, sick and shattered human bodies experience their healing and their indestructible dignity. The Christ dying in physical torment on the cross identifies himself with the sick, the tormented, and those who die in torment. That is why they are able to find in him the healing which is fellowship with God, the