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.
We Have a Problem
There is much talk of church planting, missions, doctrinal orthodoxy, and the rosiest versions of a given denominational history. Meanwhile men are harming their wives and calling it an exercise of their headship.
Kline on Old Testament Exegesis: A Free Greystone Resource
Meredith G. Kline never published a full treatment of exegesis on the Old Testament. However, Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to host his over 20 hours of lectures on Old Testament exegesis in Zechariah—newly edited and remastered—for FREE on Greystone Connect.
Letters From a Mentor: The Discipleship Purpose
Since mentorship’s purpose is to make good Christian servants of the Church, Basil understood that the mentorship relationship had really just begun with Amphilochius’ consecration as Bishop.
The Hope That Is Within You
by virtue of Paul's union with Christ, he not only had hope within him but a reasonable defense for that hope given by the testimony of the Spirit in the divine self-disclosure of God in redemptive revelation.
Figural Reading and the Christian Life: Providence and the Rule of Faith
What the church needs—contrary to modern interpretive agendas and hermeneutical obstacles—is a fides quaerens intellectum, a faith which seeks understanding, and not the other way around.
Is the Son the Son Because the Father Sends Him?
As orthodox and Reformed Christians, how are we to understand and refute EFS in light of the Eternal Generation of the Son? In what ways do Grudem and others wrongly tie the one to the other, and what are the implications of doing so?
Kline on the Prophets: A Free Greystone Resource
Meredith G. Kline never published a full treatment on the Prophets of the Old Testament. However, Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to host his nearly 30 hours of lectures on the Prophets—newly edited and remastered—for FREE on Greystone Connect.
Letters From a Mentor: The Discipleship Initiative
Basil implores a younger saint to come be discipled in the way of the Christian life; in preaching, in theology, but also in conduct, in faith, in suffering. In this way, Basil’s letter serves as an example for the Greystone model and for pastors worldwide; here is old ways made new.
The Greystone Parting Song
Historically, a “parting glass” was one last drink enjoyed as the departing group had begun to leave, and was meant to give strength for the travels ahead.
Stepping Back From Mary to the Roman Catholic Question: Why the Remedy for Converts to Rome is a Better Reformed Church, and Perhaps a Reckoning
Reading Mary forces such questions as we endeavor to do justice not only to her, a mother of the Faith, but to the One who has written of her precisely in the ways and in the time he did, and who has called us to hear what he says well.
Theological Primer: Impassibility and the Incarnation
Does the impassibility of God commend to us a God who is distant and detached from our suffering? No, because the impassible God took on flesh and he, Jesus Christ, suffered in our place.
Of Mary, Do You Know? Some Desiderata for a Reformed Mariology
Reading Mary forces such questions as we endeavor to do justice not only to her, a mother of the Faith, but to the One who has written of her precisely in the ways and in the time he did, and who has called us to hear what he says well.
The Lydia Center Digests No. 2
John McVay laments the lack of attention given to the subject of metaphor and the consequential “outmoded assumptions concerning metaphors'' in “many treatments of Pauline metaphors.”
The Lydia Center Digests No. 1
Keown argues that Paul paints a picture of a new masculinity that is subversive of the default patriarchal assumptions at work in the Greco-Roman culture of his time.
Five Questions for N. Gray Sutanto
I suggest that the two pressing issues are these: (1) broadening our sense of catholicity in pursuing Reformed dogmatics, and (2) expressing the pre-conditions of that catholicity in more explicit form. Recent work in Reformed theology has done well to uncover our forgotten heritage.
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
My first introduction to Stephen Hawking was through his bestseller, A Brief History of Time, which I read on its release in 1988 at the age of fifteen.