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Author Wink leads Southeast workshop
November, 2000
By
Richard Aubin-Fischer
‘Wink’n,’ ‘Blink’n’ but hardly a ‘nod’ was to be found when Dr. Walter Wink, Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary, led a workshop for 68 people at the Church of The Pilgrimage in Plymouth Oct. 13 and 14.
Wink is author of the Powers Trilogy: Naming the Powers; Unmasking the Powers; and Engaging the Powers.
Wink is completing an extensive study of “the Son of Man” and he shared thoughts and feelings from his work-in-progress. Drawing upon Ezekial’s vision of the transcendent form of God, Wink talked about how Jesus most often described himself as being “the son of ‘the man.’”
Wink saw Jesus as expressing his essential humanness as that of human divinity and divine humanity, which we all share. And because “the son of ‘the man’” came to serve, He, and we, are elevated to the role of “servant.”