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Also Known As Heinrich Emil Brunner
Born December 23, 1889 • Winterthur • Switzerland
Died April 6, 1966 (aged 76) • Zürich • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study neoorthodoxy
Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Swiss theologian
Schaff, engraving by J.J. Cade
Philip Schaff
American theologian
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
German theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
Yves Congar
French priest
Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
Willem Adolph Visser ’t Hooft
Dutch theologian
Metrophanes Kritopoulos
Greek patriarch and theologian
Franz Xaver von Baader
German theologian
Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury
archbishop of Canterbury
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss religious leader
Jean Vanier
Swiss-born social activist, theologian, and philosopher
Erastus, portrait by Tobias Stimmer, 1582; in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switz.
Thomas Erastus
Swiss physician and theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Johannes Cocceius
German theologian
Ames, William
William Ames
English theologian