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Wainwright, Geoffrey was born on July 16, 1939 in Yorkshire, England.
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This text aims to set the frame for a discussion and exploration of the relations between worship, doctrine and life - themes that continue to occupy the attention of thoughtful belivers.
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This book illustrates the characteristic contribution of Methodism to ecumenical dialogue--the combination of doctrinal responsibility, spiritual engagement, missionary orientation, and the glorification of the Trinitarian God--and ends with a plea that in the face of contemporary challenges, Methodists will be Wesleyan enough to keep walking with historic Christianity. The book includes dialogue between Methodism and Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, the Reformed Church, Orthodoxy, ecumenism, and several multilateral movements.
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Seeks to identify and describe the continuing Christian vision, to trace its modes of transmission, and to permit it to illuminate the human context. The result is a systematic theology in the perspective of worship.
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Central to Christianity is the work of Christ as savior of the world. In this book Geoffrey Wainwright presents the classical confession of Christ's incarnation and atoning work in ways that allow the gospel message to engage with contemporary culture. Amid social tendencies both to disown our physical nature and to be absorbed in it, Wainwright first argues that a comprehensively biblical doctrine of the Word made flesh will help to school our bodily senses as befits earthly creatures with a spiritual destiny. The incarnation shows God reaching us through sound, sight, taste, touch, and scent and inviting us to a rounded response of intellect, affections, and action. In the second half of the book the traditional description of Christ's saving work in terms of his prophetic, priestly, and royal offices is brought to bear on current concerns with knowledge and meaning, with power and authority, and with the pain of alienation and the possibility of redemption. Widely known and highly regarded in both the church and the academy, Wainwright here draws on his familiarity with doctrinal and liturgical history and his decades of experience in the ecumenical movement to offer two complementary accounts of Christ's saving work that will appeal to all who are committed to the cause of evangelical and catholic Christianity.
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This book offers an intellectual and spiritual biography of Lesslie Newbigin, a figure of patristic proportions in the twentieth-century history of the Church. Drawing on thirty-five years of personal and literary acquaintance with his subject and on a thorough examination of the Newbigin archives, Geoffrey Wainwright crafts a rich and varied portrait of this outstanding witness to the Gospel.
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In this selection of recent essays, Geoffrey Wainwright continues to probe some perennial questions posed by existence amid the world and before God. Firmly rooted in the classical Christian tradition, he finds illumination in the Scriptures, the history of doctrine, and the liturgical practices of the Church. The recurrent theme is the comprehensive purpose of God for creation, embodied in the Word made flesh, and looking in turn to be grasped by human beings. The focal image is that of Jesus suspended on the cross, reflected in the lines of Charles Wesley: The arms of love that compass me Would all mankind embrace.
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Pulling together themes from 20th-century theology, this text discusses how, from scripture, tradition and practice, the Lord's Supper is shown to epitomize the Christian vision of the final ends for the individual, the Church, human society and the entire cosmos. At the same time however, at the beginning of the 21st century, just as in the past, people are posing major questions about existence. The debate is contained within.
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The historical course of Christianity in the twentieth century has been strongly marked by the Ecumenical Movement and the Liturgical Movement, and often these currents for the recovery of the Church's unity and the renewal of its worship have flowed together. In this new book, author Geoffrey Wainwright draws on his three decades of active participation in both movements to offer a theologically informed account of what has been at stake in them, what their achievements have been, and what tasks remain for them to accomplish. He shows how the two movements have engaged such issues as the authority and function of scripture and tradition as well as the nature of the Church and sacraments. In this last connection, Wainwright illuminates the convergence represented by the widely received Lima text on "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry," in the writing of which he played a prominent part. The linguistic and anthropological turns that characterize twentieth-century thought are reflected in the attention given to the language and ritual of worship. The social location of the Church is addressed in chapters that look to liturgical practices for common Christian perspectives on ethics, politics, and culture, so that discords and conflicts may be resolved and reconciled. The book makes its own contribution to the symphony of praise to which the apostle Paul summons Christians and the churches when they will "with one mind and one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Wainwright, Geoffrey was born on July 16, 1939 in Yorkshire, England.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, 1960. Master of Arts in Medieval and Modern Languages, University Cambridge, 1964. Bachelor's Degree, University Cambridge, 1972.
Doctor of Divinity, University Cambridge, 1987. Doctor Theology, University Geneva, 1969.
He has spent much of his career in the United States and currently teaches at Duke Divinity School. Wainwright has made major contributions to modern Methodist theology. Born in Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, in 1939, Geoffrey Wainwright is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church.
He received his university education in Cambridge, Geneva and Rome.
He holds the Doctor Théol. degree from Geneva and the Doctor of Divinity from Cambridge. Returning to England, he taught scripture and theology at the Queen's College, Birmingham (1973-1979).
In 1979 he moved to Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he became the Roosevelt Professor of Systematic Theology. Since 1983 he has taught at Duke Divinity School, a part of Duke University in North Carolina, where he occupies the Robert Earl Cushman chair of Christian Theology.
Wainwright has held visiting professorships at the University of Notre Dame, the Gregorian and Angelicum universities in Rome and the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia.
Among Wainwright’s books the most influential remains Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life. His Eucharist and Eschatology (1971) and Christian Initiation (1969) were re-issued in 2002 and 2003 respectively. With Karen Westerfield Tucker he edited The Oxford History of Christian Worship (2006).
His latest book is Embracing Purpose: Essays on God, the World and the Church (2007).
Wainwright has served as president of the international Societas Liturgica (1983-1985) as well as of the American Theological Society (1996-1997). He was honoured by the publication of Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine, and Life: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Wainwright on his Sixtieth Birthday (1999).
He was awarded the 2005 Johannes Quasten Medal by the Catholic University of America for "excellence in theological scholarship". In 2005, Wainwright said that he was delighted at the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as bishop of Rome.
He called the new Pope a first-rate theologian with a subtle and penetrating mind.
He retired from Duke in 2012 and continues to make scholarly contributions in his retirement. He delivered a paper on "The Second Vatican Council: The Legacy from a Methodist Perspective" at the annual conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists in Halifax in September 2012.
( This book illustrates the characteristic contribution o...)
(Pulling together themes from 20th-century theology, this ...)
(The historical course of Christianity in the twentieth ce...)
(This text aims to set the frame for a discussion and expl...)
(This text aims to set the frame for a discussion and expl...)
(This book offers an intellectual and spiritual biography ...)
(Seeks to identify and describe the continuing Christian v...)
(In this selection of recent essays, Geoffrey Wainwright c...)
(Central to Christianity is the work of Christ as savior o...)
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Member Society Liturgica (council 1977-1987, president 1983-1985), American Theological Society (secretary 1987-1995, president 1996-1997).
Married Margaret Helen Wiles, 1965. Children: Joanna Mary, Catherine, Dominic Mark.