benefits of that agency. While this clearly implies some form of relation between Christ and the church, few classical or modern soteriologies begin from this relation itself, but are driven by a theory or metaphor of Christ’s work or of one or another anthropology, working toward the relation as the result of the (logically) prior accomplishment by God in Christ. In other words, methodologically, soteriologies tend to work from the poles of the relation to the relation itself. A liturgical theology,