For Our Salvation

by Geoffrey Wainwright

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1997

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Presents the classical confession of Christ’s incarnation.
• Shows God reaching us through sound, sight, taste, touch, and scent.
• Draws on his familiarity with doctrinal and liturgical history.

Product Details

• Title: For Our Salvation: Two Approaches to the Work of Christ
• Author: Geoffrey Wainwright
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 186
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Person and offices; Incarnation; Atonement; Senses and sensation › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780802808462, 0802808468, 0281051232, 9780281051236
• Resource ID: LLS:FOROURSALVATION
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-09T16:31:27Z

About Geoffrey Wainwright

Geoffrey Wainwright was born in Yorkshire, England, and a cricket player in his youth, studied in Cambridge, Geneva, and Rome. He is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church, and after serving a circuit ministry in Liverpool during the heyday of the Beatles, he went for six years as a missionary pastor and teacher to Cameroon in West Africa. In the mid ‘70s he taught Scripture and doctrine at The Queen’s College, Birmingham. In 1979 he moved to the United States, first to Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he held the Roosevelt chair of systematic theology, and then (in 1983) to Duke. He has devoted much of his energy to the cause of ecumenism, understood as unity in the truth of a gospel that is to be preached to the world. As a member of WCC Faith and Order, he played a leading part in the production of the Lima text on “Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry†(1982); and since 1986 he has co-chaired the dialogue between the World Methodist Council and the Roman Catholic Church. Geoffrey Wainwright has served as president of the international Societas Liturgica (1983-85) as well as of the American Theological Society (1996-97). He was honored by the publication of Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine, and Life: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Wainwright on his Sixtieth Birthday (Oxford