RT Article T1 My Friend Johann Baptist Metz JF Theology today VO 77 IS 3 SP 310 OP 312 A1 Moltmann, Jürgen 1926-2024 A2 Lösel, Steffen 1966- LA English YR 2020 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1735669059 AB Johann Baptist Metz died on December 2, 2019. He and Jürgen Moltmann shared a theological and personal friendship marked by affection and respect. It was an honest friendship and it lasted for over fifty years. It started when two texts met: Metz’s essay “God before Us” and Moltmann’s essay “The Category of Novum in Christian Theology.” Both were published in the volume To Honor Ernst Bloch (1965). This article is a personal reminiscence. K1 Catholic K1 Johann Baptist Metz K1 eulogy K1 Memory K1 Political Theology DO 10.1177/0040573620947051