Adorno, in theology, which was received with opposition. He introduced philosophical and political ideas of 1968, by Ernst Bloch and the Frankfurt School of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. He was professor of Fundamental Theology at the University of Münster from 1963 to 1993, where he developed a Theology after Auschwitz (Holocaust theology). In 1962–63, he was granted a scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. His experience in the war matches that of the German Calvinist theologian Jürgen Moltmann who would go on to write with Metz on political theology against a background of direct confrontation with National Socialist German Workers' Partysm. He was then promoted to Ph.D., with a work on the theology of Thomas Aquinas under the supervision of Karl Rahner. Metz was ordained a priest in 1954, working in ministry from 1958 to 1961. He studied theology and philosophy from 1948, first in Bamberg, then in Munich and at the University of Innsbruck, He completed his dissertation on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger in 1951. Six months before the end of the war, he was captured by the Americans and sent to prisoner of war camps in Maryland and then Virginia. As a teenager, Metz was drafted into the German military in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War. Metz was born on 5 August 1928 in Auerbach in der Oberpfalz and grew up there. He is regarded as one of the most important German theologians after the Second Vatican Council, who influenced liberation theology and focused on comp*ion. He was Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology at the University of Münster, and a consultant to the synod of German dioceses. Johann Baptist Metz (5 August 1928 – 2 December 2019) was a German Catholic priest and theologian.

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