[I'll postpone comments on interpretation of the crucifixion
in music (Bach's Matthaeus Passion, Johannes Passion and
various cantatas, in architecture such as the German cathedrals
with which I am familiar, in sculpture as in the various Pietas
and statuary of the cross, in graphic art, such as Rembrandt's
etchings of the three crosses and the numerous paintings of the
descent from the cross.]

Das Gipfelkreuz wurde 1947 von der Katholischen Jugend von St. Oswald
errichtet und 1992 nach einem Blitzschlag renoviert.
Am 17. August 2008 segnete im Rahmen eines Gottesdienstes
Diözesanbischof Wilhelm Schraml das Kreuz mit der erst jetzt
daran angebrachten Christusfigur, die eine Spende des Bistums Passau ist.

The expulsion from society as a misfortune tantamount to death.
Der Begriff Elend: Das Leiden des aus der Gesellschaft ausgestossenen Menschen.
Why should Golgatha and the crucifixion promise "Heimat fuer Heimatlose".
The death on the cross as the ultimate rejection by, separation from society.
makes the deification of Jesus and the resurrection inescapable.
Had Jesus not been God, he could not have risen from the dead.
His resurrection was proof of his divinity.
He invites all those who have been rejected all social failures to join him.
"I go to prepare a place for you, for where I am you shall be also."
Wird mir mein Leiden allzu schwer, so hilf du mir es selber tragen.

The interpretation of the crucifixion
one must assume to vary with the culture.
In some stage, indifference ...
in others perhaps even immunization to sadism.
The effect of the 30 years' war on the psychology of
the 17th and 18th centuries.

Jesus als Kunstwerk, Jesus als Puppe, as a doll.
The kingdom of heaven as the antithesis as the kingdom of this world.

Judaism as the apotheosis of community.
The law as the instrument of socialization.
Christianity as the process of individualization.