Wince+Sing
“on an age-old anvil wince and sing”
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wince+Sing is the official blog of Greystone Theological Institute. W+S provides biblical and theological resources for Christian scholarship, education, and devotion—all from a perspective consonant with and expressive of a comprehensive catholic and deeply Reformed, confessional Christian faith.
Getting the Atonement Right or Wrong: Reflections on the Imitation of Christ’s Sufferings and Its Limits
Removing substitutionary atonement, especially when we have biblical grounds for adopting it in the first place, is an unnecessary avenue to keep suffering from being a moral obligation in abusive relationships.
Getting the Atonement Right or Wrong: Reflections on Recent Models and Concerns
The Last Supper accounts have elements that we cannot dismiss from our soteriology, namely, Christ’s death is the means by which forgiveness and release from sins happen.
"Divine Violence" and the Cross
One of the focal points in the discussions surrounding religious violence has been the degree to which some atonement theories purportedly support “divine violence,” which critics would apply to any theory of atonement that would require sin be dealt with on the cross as a form of expiation or punishment.