The Divine-Human Encounter

xxiii, 118 pp. An examination of the experience of faith and, more specifically, the interface of God and man, by Swiss theologian Emil Brunner. Along with Karl Barth, he is commonly associated with neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement. Includes: Foreword; The Translator's Preface; Objectivism and Subjectivism in the History of Christendom; The Biblical Understanding of Truth; The Biblical Conception of Truth and Faith in Justification; The Biblical Understanding of Truth and Doctrine [two chapters]; The Biblical Understanding of Truth and the Church; Index.