Emil Brunner studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in theology from Zurich in 1913, with a dissertation on The Symbolic Element in Religious Knowledge.
12 Facts About Emil Brunner
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Emil Brunner served as pastor from 1916 to 1924 in the mountain village of Obstalden in the Swiss canton of Glarus.
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In 1921, Emil Brunner published his Habilitationsschrift on Experience, Knowledge and Faith and in 1922 was appointed a Privatdozent at the University of Zurich.
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In 1924 Emil Brunner was appointed Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the University of Zurich, a post which he held until his retirement in 1953.
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Emil Brunner continued his theological output with Man in Revolt and Truth as Encounter in 1937.
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Emil Brunner holds a place of prominence in Protestant theology in the 20th century and was one of the four or five leading systematicians.
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Emil Brunner rejected liberal theology's portrait of Jesus as merely a highly respected human being.
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Some claim that Emil Brunner attempted to find a middle position within the ongoing Arminian and Calvinist debate, stating that Christ stood between God's sovereign approach to mankind and free human acceptance of God's gift of salvation.
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However, Emil Brunner was a Protestant theologian from German-speaking Europe.
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Emil Brunner was considered to be the chief proponent of the new theology long before Barth's name was known in America, as his books had been translated into English much earlier.
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Emil Brunner has been considered by many to be the minor partner in the uneasy relationship.
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Emil Brunner once acknowledged that the only theological genius of the 20th century was Barth.