Emil Brunner : A Reappraisal.

Cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Translations and Editions -- 1: Emil Brunner: The Origins of a Theological Mind, 1914-1924 -- Theological Studies at Zurich -- Pastoral Ministry and Contacts in England -- The Swiss Crisis of Identity, 1914-1919 -- Brunner and Dialectical Theology: The Origins of an Ambivalent Relationship -- Brunner in America, 1919-1920 -- Brunner, Barth, and Thurneysen: Continuing Debate -- The Quest for Recognition: Erlebnis, Erkenntnis und Glaube (1921-2) -- Brunner and American Psychology of Religion -- The Limits of Humanity: Reflections on Revelation and Reason (1922) -- The Critique of Schleiermacher: Die Mystik und das Wort (1924) -- Part I: The Making of a Dialectical Theologian -- 2: Brunner's Theology of Crisis: Critique and Construction, 1924-1929 -- The 1925 Inaugural Lecture at Zurich: Revelation and Theology -- Reason and Theology: An Ecclesial Engagement (1927) -- The Mediator: A Manifesto for Dialectical Theology (1927) -- The Trinity: Dogma, not Kerygma -- The American Reception of the "Theology of Crisis" (1928) -- 3: Reflections on the Tasks of Theology, 1929-1933 -- Crisis: The Rise of Ideology in Western Europe, 1920-1935 -- Brunner's Challenge to Ideology: The "Other Task of Theology" (1929) -- Presenting Dialectical Theology in Britain: The Word and the World (1931) -- A Theological Ethics: The Divine Imperative (1932) -- A Problematic Liaison: Brunner and the Oxford Group -- The Work of the Holy Spirit: The Copenhagen Lectures (1934) -- 4: Natural Theology? The Barth-Brunner Debate of 1934 -- Natural Theology: A Contested Notion -- Karl Barth's Views on Natural Theology, 1918-1933 -- A Game-Changer: The Nazi Power Grab of 1933 -- Brunner's Public Criticism of Barth: Nature and Grace (1934).

Brunner's Later Views on Natural Theology: Revelation and Reason (1941) -- Barth's Response: No! (1934) -- 5: Brunner's Theological Anthropology: Man in Revolt (1937) -- The Need for a Theological Anthropology -- The Impossibility of an "Objective" Anthropology -- The Dependence of Humanity on God -- The "Contradiction" within Humanity -- The Image of God and Human Identity -- Humanity and Evolution: The Limits of Darwinism -- 6: Objectivity and Subjectivity in Theology: Truth as Encounter (1937) -- Object and Subject in Theology: The Context to Brunner's Thought -- Objectivity and Subjectivity: Brunner's Criticism of Existing Paradigms -- Overcoming the Object-Subject Impasse: Brunner's Strategy -- The Implications of Brunner's Notion of "Truth as Encounter" -- America: The Call to Princeton Theological Seminary, 1937-1939 -- Part II: Consolidation: Brunner's Vision for Post-War Theological Reconstruction -- 7: Brunner's Vision for the Christian Community: The Church, State, and Culture -- The Ideological Origins of Totalitarianism -- An Antidote to Totalitarianism: The Renewal of Natural Law -- The Need for Theological Reconstruction: Revelation and Reason (1941) -- The Christian State: A Modest Theological Proposal -- Rediscovering the Church as Community: Brunner's Ecclesiology -- 8: Teacher and Preacher: Brunner as a Public Intellectual -- Rector of the University of Zurich, 1942-1943 -- The Catechist: Our Faith (1935) -- The Fraumünster Sermons: Brunner as Preacher -- The Public Lecturer: The Scandal of Christianity -- Theological Education: Brunner's Dogmatics -- Tokyo: Brunner's Engagement with Asia -- Final Illness and Death -- 9: Legacy: The Contemporary Significance of Emil Brunner's Theology -- The Reformed Tradition: A Richer Range of Possibilities -- A Theology of Nature: The Basis of Natural Law, Theology, and Science.

Cultural Engagement: The Theological Foundations of Apologetics -- Personalism: The Defence of Relational Identity -- The Trinity: A Plea for Theological Modesty -- Conclusion -- Works by Emil Brunner Cited in This Study -- Index.

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