Calvinist Theologian Emil Brunner of Switzerland knows that “Christianity and Civilization” is a big subject. He does not even believe that there has ever been such a thing as a Christian civilization ...
Not least for his medicinal efficacy. At the start of 2014, the scuttlebutt had it that membership of the class of 20th-century Christian thinkers whose biographies or intellectual biographies had not ...
Europe’s leading Protestant theologians are Karl Earth of Basle and Emil Brunner of Zurich. For years their religious arguments have set the world’s theological seismographs to jiggling. Last week, ...
No Continental theologian is disposed to conduct a post-mortem examination of Barth’s theology; to do so would be to suggest that its influence were something wholly past. But this is not the case.
Alistair McGrath offers an intellectual history of Emil Brunner's life and thought—and pleads for a recovery of his theology.