Greystone Connect
resourcing advanced Reformed theological edification, formation, & education
The Greystone Membership is an online fellowship advancing rigorous and fruitful Christian dogmatics, theologically attentive study of the Bible as Holy Scripture, courageous and timely theological ethics, and the recovered “theology” in “pastoral theology”—all in the mode of Confessional reformed catholicity.
Hundreds of Lecture Hours
Across Multiple Disciplines
Use your unlimited access to our growing library of courses, special lectures, study day and weekend lecture series, and postgraduate seminar presentations for individual, group, school, and committee study and continuing education.
Greystone Learning
Make the most of your daily commute with Greystone lectures. Or take your study of a theme or discipline to the next level. Or fill out your current or recently completed degree program with supplemental and rigorous content. Or customize a continuing education plan that fits your situation best. Or organize a group of ministerial or student colleagues or friends and complete a full or partial module together, leading discussion of provided readings and the lecture content. The possibilities are many. No matter where you are now, Greystone can help you with your next step. What can you do with Greystone Connect? Watch the video (left) to learn more.
Membership Features
Greystone Members enjoy unlimited access to the entire, rapidly expanding library of lecture content drawn from Greystone full course modules, micro-courses, study series, symposia, special lecture events, the Greystone Online Postgraduate Seminar series, and more. Members also receive Gleanings, the Members’-only resource newsletter. Perhaps most importantly, through their subscription Greystone Members make it possible for the Institute to provide completely free Membership access to Reformed ministerial students, ministers, and other church leaders in parts of the world where it is simply not possible for our brethren to afford the Membership fee. Through your Membership, you are supporting the education and development of Reformed churches and communions throughout the world. To find out more, watch the video (left) and please contact us today.
Group Study Features
Greystone resources can now be used in a group context that you organize and lead. This exciting new feature is being rolled out module by module and series by series. Seminaries and divinity schools can use them as supplemental course or program offerings, church leadership groups including presbytery and classis committees can work together through a full or micro-course series, college and university societies and fellowships can pursue topics together, and other groups of friends and colleagues can organize their own study series. The group study option can include participants who are not Greystone Members and features discussion questions and select text resources to support group interaction and progress. Watch the video (left) for more information.
Sample Lecture
The best way to get to know Greystone’s resources is to use them. You can also watch or listen to the sample lecture provided here (right). This lecture on Adamic and Genesis themes in Job is Lecture 4.4 in our full course module “Job as Christian Scripture” taught by Greystone Fellow in Old Testament, Dr. Don Collett. You might also consider taking advantage of public content provided by Greystone in various contexts, such as our podcast, Greystone Conversations or material occasionally posted at our new YouTube channel.
“I am more equipped to translate our exegetical, theological, and historical work into the ecclesial and pastoral vocation in creative ways along various ‘practical’ avenues. My training here makes me feel trusted and dignified, not condescended to.”
-A Greystone Member
Features That Set Greystone Apart
Greystone Theological Institute has been formed as an innovative and collaborative effort in theological edification in the mode of confessional Reformed catholicity. Greystone is deliberately different and deliberately rigorous, aiming for the long-term usefulness of faithful, effective theological service to the Church and world.
Experienced academics, professionals, and church leaders have crafted Greystone accordingly to combine the riches of the premodern approach to theological formation with the thoughtful use of the best contemporary tools.
Greystone is committed to patient, theologically oriented, and churchly exegesis of Holy Scripture as the priority of Reformed theology and ministry. Drawing deeply from the Church’s traditioned listening to the Spirit through the Word, yet also critically appreciative of contemporary, quality works in biblical studies, Greystone seeks to recover the notion and function of the Bible as “Holy Scripture” which determined the Church’s relationship to biblical text until the modern era. With a firm eye to the theological reality of the canon and of the Church’s vocation to herald Lord Jesus Christ, Greystone’s approach to the biblical text and to biblical theology is designed to foster humility, delight, and confidence in the ever-rich Word.
Greystone exists to aid clergy, ministerial trainees, research students, and other thoughtful Christians in the sacred task of “thinking God’s thoughts after him.” Greystone is unabashedly committed to theology in the way of Christ – as a form of humble dependence, in thought and action, upon the God who speaks the living truth by Word and Spirit. In our embrace of divine providence we rejoice in the triune God’s formation of families and communities, and especially his Church, as witnesses to the glory of Christ’s kingdom, and seek to respond faithfully to his calls to courageous, confident, and charitable discipleship.
Greystone believes the confessional tradition of Reformed Christianity is deeply and broadly catholic, afraid neither of the tradition nor of fresh proposals, and rooted strongly in the “norming norm” of Scripture. With the fathers of the Reformed churches, we delight in that Christian tradition which is—to use the words of one famous church historian—the living faith of the dead, and shun the dead faith of the living. Greystone recognizes the most faithful mode of theological study as one which operates in the spirit of that catholicity. Greystone courses explore the vast terrain of old and new biblical, historical, and theological questions in the structured and guided liberty of that catholicity.