ABSTRACT
William Porcher DuBose is appreciated as one of the most original and creative theologians in the history of the Episcopal Church. William Porcher DuBose's teaching career at Sewanee was deeply connected to his published theology. DuBose thus emphasizes the experiential nature of spiritual knowledge. DuBose observes nothing ever comes from God to man except through man, and except through the organs or faculties and laws of human transmission. DuBose presents the relation of theological reflection and pastoral life in a powerful way. DuBose presents a spiritual theology in which the human need for salvation and the human possibility of salvation in Christ have utmost reality in human experience. DuBose emphasizes the participation in the saving process must lead to a mutuality of giving in personal relationship whereby Christ lives in us and author live in Christ. DuBose explains the saving process, especially the end and completion of salvation, in terms of an ancient teleology and a very contemporary biology.
