What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
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| Birth: | 23rd December, 1889 |
| Death: | 6th April, 1966 |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Profession: | Theologian |
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Heinrich Emil Brunner was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. He was a swiss Protestant theologian. He served as a pastor at Obstalden, Switzerland, from 1916 to 1924. In 1919–1920 he spent a year in the United States studying at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1924 he became professor of systematic and practical theology at the University of Zürich, where he taught continuously, except for extensive lecture tours in the United States and in Asia. He studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in theology from Zurich in 1913, with a dissertation on The Symbolic Element in Religious Knowledge. He wrote several books include: Revelation and Reason, Dogmatics, 3 vol., Justice and the Social Order, and Christianity and Civilization.
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