This bushy-browed, energetic man of 56 does not look like the popular picture of the dour theologianmuch less like a neo-Calvinist theologian. But among top prophets of neo-orthodoxy's contemporary "theology of crisis," Dr. Emil Brunner ranks second only to his fellow Swiss, Karl Earth.
Basic neo-orthodox premises: the Bible is the authoritativethough not necessarily literalsource of divine revelation; fallen man is innately so "other" than God that he can accomplish virtually nothing by good works, prayer or fasting, but must nevertheless keep trying, in hope of rescue by Divine Grace.
Last week, after...