The Swiss theologian Emil Brunner (1889-1966) has faded from prominence in both the church and the academy since his death fifty years ago. He nevertheless remains a significant resource for contemporary theological reflection and reconstruction, as well as for the mission of the church. This article identifies six areas in which Brunner continues to offer insight and wisdom to both the academy and the church. Brunner enables an enriched understanding of the Reformed theological tradition; a continuing engagement with the natural order, including the natural sciences; a credible and theologically informed apologetic; the rediscovery of the church as a community of faith; the affirmation of relational understandings of human identity; and a critique of recent inflationary accounts of the doctrine of the Trinity.
