Governance & Legal
Legal Credentials
Greystone Theological Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization whose organizational and financial reports are accessible at our Guidestar profile. Greystone Theological Institute is a network of scholars, ministers, and Christian friends that hosts theological edification modules and events. The Institute is a fellowship and is not a school and does not itself grant degrees, degree programs, or credit.
Personnel
Greystone has been formed to advance confessional Reformed catholicity through rigorous scholarly training, focused student and clergy mentorship, and collaborative research at the seminary (divinity school) and postgraduate levels.
The Institute is free from control by any particular communion or denomination and is governed by a Board of Directors who are members in good and regular standing in confessional Reformed communions. Greystone welcomes students from many denominational affiliations and none, but it exists principally to assist churches and seminaries or divinity schools prepare students for scholarly or ministerial service within confessional Reformed churches. Members of the Board, faculty, and administration are individually under the jurisdiction of the various church courts of the denominations to which they belong.
All fellows and lecturers who teach Greystone modules sign a Statement of Confessional Adherence pledging not to teach or insinuate, in their module, anything in contradiction to what is held in common by the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms, the Three Forms of Unity, and the Anglican Formularies.
Board of Directors
Chair: The Rev. Dr. Mark A. Garcia, Ph.D., Norristown, Pennsylvania
Greystone Founding President/CEO, Fellow in Scripture & Theology, and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary
Vice Chair and Secretary: Ms. Jessica Doerfel, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
Greystone Senior Vice President of Administration/COO
Dr. Atria A. Larson, Ph.D., St. Louis, Missouri
Greystone Chief Adviser to the President on Academic Affairs, Greystone Fellow, and Professor at Saint Louis University
Treasurer: Mr. John Holt, CPA, CGMA, Wexford, Pennsylvania
CPA, entrepreneur, former President of Holsinger Certified Public Accountants, and Presbyterian elder
Mr. Michael Sacasas, Winter Park, Florida
Greystone Associate Fellow and Director of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville (FL)
Mr. Rick Quinn, Australia
Financial Investor, Attorney, and Entrepreneur
To contact a member of the Board, please email the Institute.
Presidential Ministerial Council
The Presidential Ministerial Council is an advisory team of ministers in Reformed churches and institutions who regularly counsel and collaborate with the President regarding the needs of the Church and of seminaries, the most effective and prudent ways for Greystone to serve the Church, and matters of institutional life and fellowship.
Accreditation & Standards
Accreditation
Greystone Theological Institute is not a school and does not confer degrees. Greystone organizes various modules into unaccredited certificates. Greystone also collaborates with accredited institutions of higher learning for accredited degrees granted not by Greystone but by the accredited institution. Greystone is not itself an accredited institution and is presently in the process of securing accredited status.
Unless otherwise indicated, Greystone modules are carried out at an advanced postgraduate level (to be compared with the Master's degree or PhD level of instruction) and focus on vocational training for ongoing research, ministerial development, and scholarly productivity.
Academic Standards
As an institution of higher learning and research, all Greystone courses are taught by fellows and lecturers who have completed a terminal academic or research degree in their field (Ph.D., Th.D., D.Phil.) and are active in teaching or research. In the event a course is taught by a lecturer lacking a terminal degree (but holding, for example, the Th.M. or M.Phil.), and in other special circumstances, the lecturer shall have expert knowledge of the subject matter and the course shall be co-taught with a lecturer holding the terminal degree qualification (Ph.D.). All programs are open to all qualified students, both men and women.
Nondiscrimination Policy
Greystone Theological Institute admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the Institute. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other institute-administered programs.