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Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Johann Baptist Metz was a German Catholic priest and theologian. He was Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology at the University of Münster, and a consultant to the synod of German dioceses. He is regarded as one of the most important German theologians after the Second Vatican Council, who influenced liberation theology and focused on compassion.

Born: August 5, 1928

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The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

Johann Baptist Metz

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

Johann Baptist Metz

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Johann Baptist Metz

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

Johann Baptist Metz

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

Johann Baptist Metz

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Johann Baptist Metz

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Johann Baptist Metz

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Johann Baptist Metz

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

Johann Baptist Metz