Among Wainwright's books the most influential remains Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life. His more recent books include For Our Salvation: Two Approaches to the Work of Christ (1997), Worship with One Accord: Where Liturgy and Ecumenism Embrace (1997), Is the Reformation Over? Catholics and Protestants at the Turn of the Millennia (which was the Père Marquette Lecture for 2000), an intellectual and spiritual biography of a father of the 20th century ecumenical church, Lesslie Newbigin: A Theological Life, and Embracing Purpose: Essays on God, the World and the Church (2007). His Eucharist and Eschatology (1971) and Christian Initiation (1969) were re-issued in 2002 and 2003 respectively. With Karen Westerfield Tucker he edited The Oxford History of Christian Worship (2006). His latest book is Faith, Hope and Love: The Ecumenical Trios of Virtues (2014).
