Leonardo Boff calls Passion of Christ, Passion of the World a work experimental in nature: an attempt to explore the meaning of the cross both as it has been interpreted in the past and how it should be interpreted in the context of contemporary faith and circumstances. The circumstances he speaks of are the poverty and repression, fear and violence under which so many of the world's people suffer today. Boff's question: In such a world how can the cross be understood and preached and what are the consequences of that understanding and that praxis?