seen more in the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount than in atonements and resurrections, he said. Barth’s colleague, Emil Brunner, in his book The Mediator, gave his critique of liberalism with a single word. The word he chose to crystallize the essence of liberalism was unbelief. Both Barth and Brunner, though never coming all the way to orthodoxy, were clear in their rejection of the liberalism of the nineteenth century and the neo-liberalism (exemplified by Rudolf Bultmann) of the twentieth century.