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A Zurich Theologian Teaches Far Beyond Zurich

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Emil Brunner later taught in Japan and the United States, a documented extension of a career centered at Zurich rather than confined to it, carrying the same distinctly Brunnerian Reformed theology that had already separated him from Barth over the point of contact question into classrooms well beyond Switzerland. That later teaching abroad is recorded as distinct from his earlier public dispute with Barth, a separate chapter of his career rather than a continuation of the same argument played out on new ground.

His own systematic Dogmatics remained influential in Reformed circles distinct from Barth's during this period, a documented body of work that gave students in Japan and the United States a full statement of his theology to study directly rather than only the position taken in one earlier essay and its rebuttal. That the Dogmatics circulated separately from the Nature and Grace controversy is recorded as allowing Brunner's wider theological system, and not only his disagreement with Barth, to reach an international readership on its own terms.

That a Swiss Reformed theologian whose defining public dispute was with a fellow Zurich era Neo-Orthodox founder went on to teach in Japan and the United States, carrying a systematic Dogmatics that circulated on its own account, marks Brunner's later career as a documented case where a theologian's influence outgrew both his home university and the single controversy most associated with his name.

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Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
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Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source
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