Old - time liberals dismissed him along with Barth as being biblicistic and pessimistic, and fundamentalists
rejected his alleged neo-orthodoxy as a «new modernism» (so Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Seminary) Even so, self - confessed liberal Wilhelm Pauck and leading conservative
evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry found much that was challenging and admirable in Brunner's theology.
Being aware of the diversity present within
evangelical theology will help process
theologians recognize that there is a basis for discussion even though many
evangelicals reject process theology.