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...Harry Brunner lived in a circle of fear. He feared life and, when war came, feared death. He trembled before the burdens of love and dreaded the void left by its absence. Watching himself as if he were a diseased stranger, relishing his troubles as if they were sweet delicacies, he could never act simply or spontaneously. Even after he had seen action as a naval flyer in the Pacific, he knew that his real war had to be fought within himself...
...Baillie, professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has written only two books in his 60 years. But when he has something to say, he knows how to say it. Swiss Professor Emil Brunner, one of Europe's leading theologians, paid it a rare tribute: "It is rather exceptional that a book of dogmatic theology makes fascinating reading . . ." Union Theological Seminary's President Emeritus Henry Sloane Coffin gave it an equally rare garland: "First-rate . . . We have little really tiptop theology today, and this is tiptop...
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, through a paraphrase prepared by Dr. E. G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary and published in the British Christian News-letter and the U.S. Christian Century, the English-speaking world was registering the rumbles of another Barth-Brunner set-to. The timely subject: Protestantism v. Communism...
Into Battle. Theologian Brunner lost no time in challenging this position. In an open letter to Earth in the same publication he said that he was unable to understand why Earth, one of the first and most uncompromising opponents of Naziism, has not taken a similar stand against Communism-and long since. Is not Communism totalitarianism? Brunner asked. And is not totalitarianism "in principle" unrighteous and inhuman? Must not Christians join in this battle? To remain silent is to deny a fundamental Christian principle, which Christians must never...
Students will be divided into seven groups, each of which will attend 9 of the 12 workshops offered. Leaders of the workshops include Jerome K. Brunner, professor of Psychology, Doris Byrne, vice-chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, Thomas H. Eliot '28, former Congressman from Massachusetts, and Marjorie Lansing. Director of the Massachusetts P.C.A...