Johann Baptist Metz
Johann Baptist Metz (* August 5, 1928 in Welluck / today Auerbach in der Oberpfalz ) is a Catholic theologian ( Fundamental Theology ) and a student of Karl Rahner, whose Collected Works he publishes since 1995.
Life
After graduating from today's Gregor-Mendel -Gymnasium in Amberg Metz studied in Bamberg, Innsbruck and Munich, theology and philosophy. In 1952 his PhD. and in 1961 Dr. theol. In 1954 he was ordained a priest. From 1963 to 1993 he was Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster ( Westphalia). He then worked for several years at the University of Vienna as a visiting professor.
From 1968 to 1973 he was consultant to the Pontifical Secretariat for the unbelievers and 1971-1975 Consultant of the Würzburg Synod of the German bishoprics and main author of the Synod document our hope. Metz is co-founder and editor of the international theological journal Concilium.
From the University of Vienna in 1994, he received an honorary doctorate in 2002, he was awarded by the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, the Buber- Rosenzweig Medal and in 2007 he was awarded in recognition of his oeuvre Theological Prize of Salzburg University Weeks. In recent years he worked amplified together with the Viennese fundamental theologian Johann Reikerstorfer.
Founder of the " new" political theology
Metz is considered the founder of himself what he called "new" political theology - to be viewed - in contrast to the "old " political theology of Carl Schmitt. This from the German left-wing Catholicism ( and Others Walter Dirks ) and the Frankfurt School -influenced new approach was in critical exchange with liberation theology in Latin America.
Metz is considered to be one of the most important and influential German theologian after the Second Vatican Council. It is a particular concern of Metz, the newly introduced "authority of the suffering " in theology or again to remember; the question of theodicy he sees as a permanent job to the church and theology, the " memoria passionis " to preserve and in this way contribute to the humanization of the world in openness on their eschatological consummation by God. Therefore, the theology of eschatological reservation must operate.
Works (selection)
- For the theology of the world. Mainz 1973 ( topos -TB), ISBN 3-7867-0411-2.
- Faith in history and society. Studies to a practical fundamental theology. Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-7867-0659- X.
- Time of order? For mysticism and politics of succession. Freiburg 1977, ISBN 3-451-17724-2.
- Beyond civil religion. Talking about the future of Christianity. Mainz / Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7867-0826-6.
- The concept of the new political theology from 1967 to 1997. Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-7867-2029-0.
- Memoria Passionis. A provocative memory in pluralistic society. Freiburg, 2006, ISBN 3-451-28941-5.
- Mysticism of open eyes. If spirituality breaks. Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-29890-5.
- Speech of God ( Religion - History - Company Fundamental Theological Studies Vol 1. ). Edited by Johann Baptist Metz, Johann Reikerstorfer and Jürgen Werbick. Munster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2470-5.
- Christology after Auschwitz. Statements in connection with theses Tiemo Rainer Peters ( Religion - History - Society Vol 12). Edited by Johann Baptist Metz and Jürgen Manemann. Munster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-3979-6.
- Christian anthropocentrism. About modes of thought of Thomas Aquinas. Munich in 1962, DNB 453,347,983th
- Interruptions. Theological- political perspectives and profiles. Gütersloh 1981, ISBN 3-579-01041-7.