ABSTRACT
William Porcher DuBose is appreciated as one of the most original and creative theologians in the history of the Episcopal Church. The Civil War interrupted his studies in seminary. He published seven books of theology, and he was a frequent contributor to The Constructive Quarterly, an ecumenical journal. The autobiographical papers DuBose read to his former students at the morning sessions of the reunion became part of his book Turning Points in My Life. 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. This is emphasized by DuBose's use of the word 'actually'. DuBose understands salvation in terms of a process, a progressive reality that is already and actually completed in Christ. DuBose died in Sewanee, and is commemorated in the Episcopal Calendar of the church year on August 18.
