"All theological statements about the divine revelation must begin with Jesus Christ, as the Word of God Incarnate, and that we are not bound by any biblical passages taken in isolation, and certainly not by isolated sections of the Old Testament." -Emil Brunner, "Man and Creation" from The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption.
I am in complete agreement with this statement. However, after this, Brunner then claims a theology for Jesus without any support from Jesus himself. This means that Brunner's theological "Jesus Christ" is one of his own imagination, where the basis of his theology is not the Jesus of the Bible, but the Jesus of theology. And when one creates one's own intellectual starting point, then one also lacks the humility of actually being led by God toward and understanding of God's will.
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