of the Risen One permit one not only to recognize the historical Jesus, the Christ of the past, but also to imagine the Christ of the future, the triumphant Risen One. To speak of such things human beings have no words and images apart from those of everyday life. The task is not easy, for even the most beautiful colors, such as those used, for example, by Mathias Grünewald in the Isenheim Altarpiece, may by their very excess have a negative effect. ■ 40 What the double imperative had demanded is