ABSTRACT
Emil Brunner, along with Karl Barth and Hendrik Kraemer, provides the essential theological rationale for the exclusivist Christian response to other world religions. Brunner proposes that God can only be known through divine initiative, evident, in the first instance, through a general revelation, which is corrupted by sin and inadequate for salvation. This chapter challenges Brunner that, even though Brunner asserts that the canon of scripture must be constantly subject to revision, he still wants to make the biblical witness the norm for all church doctrine. It asks how it could be possible to use as a norm' something which could be revised at any time and still believe that it is conveying absolute and eternal truth. On the basis of his primary assertions, it makes a great deal more sense to conclude that the revelation of God has occurred, and is occurring, in a great variety of ways in a number of different cultural contexts.
