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.

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我的朋友约翰·巴普蒂斯特·梅斯

约翰浸信会梅斯于 2019 年 12 月 2 日去世。他和于尔根莫尔特曼分享了以感情和尊重为标志的神学和个人友谊。这是一段真诚的友谊，持续了五十多年。它开始于两篇文章相遇时：梅斯的文章“上帝在我们面前”和莫尔特曼的文章“基督教神学中的新神论”。两者都发表在《向恩斯特·布洛赫致敬》（1965 年）一书中。这篇文章是个人回忆。