Geoffrey Wainwright

Geoffrey Wainwright (born 1939) is a British theologian. 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 Dr. Théol. degree from Geneva and the D.D. from Cambridge. He served as a circuit minister in Liverpool (1964-66) and then as a missionary teacher and pastor in Cameroon, West Africa (1967-73). Returning to England, he taught scripture and theology at the Queen’s College, Birmingham (1973-79). 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.