biography
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| biography:
| Theologian, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He became a professor at the universities of Wuppertal (1958–63), Bonn (1963–7), and Tübingen (1967– ). Probably the most significant Protestant theologian of the 20th-c since Karl Barth, his support of a theology of hope marked a reaction against the individualistic existential approach of Rudolf Bultmann, and a revival in Protestant theology of concern for the social nature of Christian faith in the modern world. |
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