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...master came accidentally to light. Mrs. Frank Brunner, of Rockaway Beach, N.Y., who "always liked having original paintings and water-colors in our house," made a habit of dropping in at local auctions every now & then, to pick up a fresh one. Six years ago she had spent $6 on a little watercolor of a farmer trailing home with his scythe at dusk, because she "liked the coloring." It looked very nice in the living room, until a friend of the family happened to suggest she look under the edge of the frame to see if the picture...
Manhattan dealers began ringing Housewife Brunner's bell last week. Offers climbed from $1,000 to $2,000. Hastily Mrs. Brunner transferred her prize to a bank vault, and moved her china cabinet over a few feet to hide the bare spot where her Homer had been...
This bushy-browed, energetic man of 56 does not look like the popular picture of the dour theologian-much 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...
Last week, after two months in the U.S., Dr. Brunner flew back to Europe and his Systematic Theology classes at the University of Zurich. He had found the U.S. much changed for the better, theologically speaking, since his last visit in 1938-39. Said...
Theologian Brunner has high hope that the "awakening" in the U.S. will check an overemphasis on social-service Christianity that he opposes and deplores. His warning: "Americans developed the social side of Christianity much further than has the European church; but in the process you have been losing, to a high degree, substantial preaching. It would be the end if this went...