- 532 - Emil Brunner-Teacher Unsurpassed Emil Brunner-Teacher Unsurpassed By J. Robert Nelson THE name of Emil Brunner has been a most familiar one to students of theology in many countries for nearly forty years. Thanks to a little lady of Oxford, Olive Wyon, his great works of theology have been known to British and American seminarians as standard-setting treatises on the major doctrines.theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1963/v19-4-article7.htm