Emil Brunner

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In Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal, renowned theologianAlister E. McGrath presents a comprehensive intellectual history ofEmil Brunner, the highly influential Swiss theologian who wasinstrumental in shaping modern Protestant theology. * Explores Brunner's theological development and offers acritical engagement of his theology * Examines the role that Brunner played in shaping thecharacteristics of dialectical theology * Reveals the complex and shifting personal and professionalrelationship between Brunner and Barth * Delves into the reasons for Brunner's contemporaryneglect in theological scholarship * Represents the only book-length study of Brunner's worksand significance in the English language

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"McGrath has written an excellent account of Brunner'stheology that should, if history be kind, spark a renewed interestand consideration of Brunner as a significant theologian for the21st century." (Freedom in Orthodoxy, 1February 2014) "McGrath's consummate skills as both a theologian and an historian are masterfully at work in this penetrating and highly illuminating study arguing for the importance and continuing vital relevance to current theological and cultural debates of one of the 20th century's largely forgotten major theological voices. Exhibiting the same sagacious understanding, balanced discernment and astute critical insight that we have come to admire and value so highly in McGrath, this intensively researched and captivating book brings together for the first time an enormous wealth of original source material yielding important new insights and contexts for a compelling reassessment and reappropriation of Brunner's legacy. The book as such will serve not only as an inspired catalyst for renewed attention to Brunner but also as an indispensable resource base for further research, whether on Brunner himself or on the doctrinal and cultural issues that animated him and to which he continues to contribute so richly and relevantly." Paul Janz, King's College London "Professor McGrath offers us a brilliant reassessment of a theologian who has for long languished in the shadow of Karl Barth. It needs no less than an author with the wide-ranging skills of a theologian, intellectual historian and expert in the interface between science and religion to bring to light the neglected contribution of Emil Brunner to the theology of the twentieth century. Brunner's comprehensive vision for doctrine, theology of nature, missiology, ethics, practical theology and apologetics is exposed by an author who has himself produced formative work in all these areas. Neither simply a biography nor a mere introduction to Brunner's theology, this deeply-researched and engaging study traces the emergence of Brunner's thought in its cultural context, recognizes its flaws and yet recovers a challenge for the involvement of theology in the culture of our present time." Paul S. Fiddes, University of Oxford "McGrath's meticulously researched and lucid exposition and assessment of Emil Brunner's legacy is a landmark publishing event not only for the better understanding of modern Reformed theology but also of twentieth-century theology at large." Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Fuller Theological Seminary and University of Helsinki
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