Reflections on Brunner's "Man and Creation"

The beginning of a human relationship with the Creator is to know ourselves as creatures. Humanity is dust—one with the world—yet created in God’s image. Earthiness and divinity in one neat package, multiplied by billions. Weakness and strength; bound to both the physical and the spiritual; fallen yet eternally linked to God. Humanity is the perfect bridge, between heaven and earth, yet fundamentally warped.

The Jesus of One's Imagining

"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.