La fuerza subversiva del sufrimiento evocado. Recepción de Walter Benjamin en la teología de Johann Baptist Metz

Abstract

The work of Johann Baptist Metz is characterized for a “turn” happened in the second
half of the sixties: from a Transcendental theology to a Political theology. His
contacts with thinkers of the Frankfurt School was decisive for such process. In that
context, this article presents, first, some ideas of Walter Benjamin from the consideration,
mainly, of his last work: “On the Concept of History” (Über den Begriff der
Geschichte). Secondly, it highlights, on one hand, the reception that such ideas have
had in the work of Metz, on the other, it emphasizes central points of his theological
proposal in which he take distance from Benjamin.