Abstract
The influence of Ernst Bloch on the Political Theology of Johann Baptist MetzThis article deals with the decisive influence that Ernst Bloch had on the young German Catholic theologian during the 1960s, as he grew progressively dissatisfied with the categories of Rahner’s anthro-pological or transcendental theology. It is argued that Bloch’s influence is to be understood more in terms of his modern Jewish Messianism than his Marxism. Through his intense friendship with Bloch. Metz rediscovered the Jewish traditions that have been suppressed in Catholic Christianity. He gained the courage to confront the certainties of his own theological tradition with his unreconciled experiences of non-identity. Bloch taught Metz to appropriate eschatology as belonging to the centre of Christianity, to relate transcendence and future, and to clarify the relationship between human praxis and future as transcendence. But such eschatology operates with a problematical concept of praxis.
Highlights
This article deals with the decisive influence that Ernst Bloch had on the young German Catholic theologian during the 1960s, as he grew progressively dissatisfied with the categories of Rahner’s anthropological or transcendental theology
Metz rediscovered the Jewish traditions that have been suppressed in Catholic Christianity
In ’n vorige artikel het ek beskryf hoe Metz as student van Karl Rahner en medewerker aan sy projek om die skolastiese teologie te herformuleer in die kategorieë van die twintigste eeuse antropologie veral gebruik gemaak het van konsepte ontwikkel
Summary
Die veranderinge in Johann Baptist Metz se teologiese denkweg hang dikwels saam met ’n wisseling van teologiese of filosofiese gespreksgenote. In ’n vorige artikel het ek beskryf hoe Metz as student van Karl Rahner en medewerker aan sy projek om die skolastiese teologie te herformuleer in die kategorieë van die twintigste eeuse antropologie veral gebruik gemaak het van konsepte ontwikkel. Die “nuwe” Politieke Teologie maak erns met hierdie analise, en beskou ’n teologiese hermeneutiek wat volstaan by ’n verstaanshorison beskryf in terme van die subjektiewe eksistensie, of subjektiwiteit beperk tot die ek-jou verhouding, as naïef. Dis veral die invloed van Ernst Bloch wat hom die kategorie “toekoms” en die belang van die eskatologie laat herontdek en die kategorie “wêreld” laat interpreteer in terme van geskiedenis (en nie “Geschichtlichkeit” nie). Die eerste formulering van die “nuwe” Politieke Teologie (“Politieke Teologie I”) word gekenmerk deur Metz se kritiek op die privarisering en verinnerliking van die geloof wat die Christelike religie in burgerlike godsdiens laat ontaard. Hierdie kritiek gaan gepaard met die herontdekking van die publieke belang van die Christusgebeure
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