He was 16 when he was drafted in the German army, in 1943. He served a little more than one year before he surrendered to the British army. He was a prisoner of war in Belgium, England and Scotland and it was as a prisoner of war that, as he said, "#Jesus found [him]". Back in Germany in 1948 or 1949, he studied theology and became pastor (as a pastor he fought for the idea that the Church shouldn't continue is work as if Nazism didn't occur and joined the Confessing Church, which gathered anti-Nazi Protestants during the Nazi era) and later professor of systematic theology, and then he published, between other important books, the "Theology of Hope", a very important and influent work which was inspired by Marxism (and especially by the book "The Principle of Hope" of the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch) and inspired the #TheologyOfLiberation. He also published about #ecology and as soon as 1985 he published a book titled "God in #Creation: An Ecological Doctrine of Creation".
All his life he tried to think the common problems of his time from a Christian perspective, proving the pertinence of the Christian faith in our time. he was one of the great names of his generation.
🏴 "Hume saw Protestant theology—especially the more enthusiastic strains of English Puritanism—as having fortuitously shifted the landscape of political and economic sensibilities in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by affecting believers’ political, social, and economic psychologies."