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Emil Brunner’s treatise on the nature of mankind, exploring the contradiction at the heart of human experience, only comprehensible through God.
In Emil Brunner's treatise on the nature of mankind he explores what Darwin, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, despite their differences, all overlooked: the contradiction at the heart of human experience. This contradiction is comprehensible only through a God who illuminates what we should be, who makes communication possible through his Word and our ability to respond. A transcendent, metaphysical exploration of the human condition, in Man In Revolt Brunner centres the Biblical doctrine of humankind to reveal the truth being sought in the endless human search for understanding.
Focussing on responsibility as the key to personality, Brunner explores how an understanding of ourselves as created in the image of God offers an insight into our responsibility. With profound penetration and power, he considers the timeless questions of individuality and community, men and women, and our souls and bodies. An incisive and enduring work, Man in Revolt brings Brunner's piercing argument to the question at the centre of our understanding of ourselves - and our relation to the world we live in.
In Emil Brunner's treatise on the nature of mankind he explores what Darwin, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, despite their differences, all overlooked: the contradiction at the heart of human experience. This contradiction is comprehensible only through a God who illuminates what we should be, who makes communication possible through his Word and our ability to respond. A transcendent, metaphysical exploration of the human condition, in Man In Revolt Brunner centres the Biblical doctrine of humankind to reveal the truth being sought in the endless human search for understanding.
Focussing on responsibility as the key to personality, Brunner explores how an understanding of ourselves as created in the image of God offers an insight into our responsibility. With profound penetration and power, he considers the timeless questions of individuality and community, men and women, and our souls and bodies. An incisive and enduring work, Man in Revolt brings Brunner's piercing argument to the question at the centre of our understanding of ourselves - and our relation to the world we live in.
Price: $69.95
Pages: 200
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
30 October 2025
Trim Size: 8.46 X 5.39 in
ISBN: 9780227180808
Format: Paperback
Author's Preface (to the German Edition)
Translator's Note
Introduction: The Question of Man
I. The Riddle of Man
II. Man's Own View of His Significance
III. The Variety of the Views of Man
Main Section I: Foundations
IV. The Presuppositions of the Christian Doctrine of Man
V. The Origin: The Imago Dei
VI. The Contradiction: The Destruction of the Image of God
VII. The Conflict Between the Origin and the Contradiction in Man: Man as He Actually is
VIII. The Objections to the Christian Doctrine, and the Retrospective Question from the Standpoint of Actual Experience
Main Section II: Development of the Theme
IX. The Unity of Personality and Its Decay
X. The Human Spirit and the Human Reason
XI. The Problem of Freedom
XII. The Individual and the Community
XIII. Character and Varieties of Character
XIV. Individuality and Humanity
XV. Man and Woman
XVI. Soul and Body
XVII. The Growth of Man and the Doctrine of Evolution
XVIII. Man in the Cosmos
XIX. Man in History
XX. Man in his Earthly Life, and Death
Epilogue: The Removal of the Contradiction Between Man as He Actually is, and Man as He is Intended to Be
Appendices
Index
Full List of Contents
Translator's Note
Introduction: The Question of Man
I. The Riddle of Man
II. Man's Own View of His Significance
III. The Variety of the Views of Man
Main Section I: Foundations
IV. The Presuppositions of the Christian Doctrine of Man
V. The Origin: The Imago Dei
VI. The Contradiction: The Destruction of the Image of God
VII. The Conflict Between the Origin and the Contradiction in Man: Man as He Actually is
VIII. The Objections to the Christian Doctrine, and the Retrospective Question from the Standpoint of Actual Experience
Main Section II: Development of the Theme
IX. The Unity of Personality and Its Decay
X. The Human Spirit and the Human Reason
XI. The Problem of Freedom
XII. The Individual and the Community
XIII. Character and Varieties of Character
XIV. Individuality and Humanity
XV. Man and Woman
XVI. Soul and Body
XVII. The Growth of Man and the Doctrine of Evolution
XVIII. Man in the Cosmos
XIX. Man in History
XX. Man in his Earthly Life, and Death
Epilogue: The Removal of the Contradiction Between Man as He Actually is, and Man as He is Intended to Be
Appendices
Index
Full List of Contents