Johann Baptist Metz (b. 1928). Metz is German, from Bavaria more specifically, and like other Germans of his time — Dorothee Sölle and Jürgen Moltmann, his scandal was theodicy. Other than the Holocaust, he also experienced his own brush with death. Conscripted into the Nazi war machine at sixteen, he was sent to deliver a message. He left his company, of more than a hundred boys of similar age, only to return and find them all slaughtered:
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The Attack on September 11 and the Funeral of My Grandmother on September
11: Two Very Different Visions
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Today is September 11. As usual, this date is the occasion for a lot of
talk about the ‘terror attacks’ and the unending ‘war on terror.’ For many
the frus...
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