Greystone Conversations
Greystone Conversations is the podcast of Greystone Theological Institute. We invite you to join us as we explore brief Scripture and theology studies, share interviews, discuss texts old and new, and listen in on Greystone special lecture events and selections from full Greystone course modules.
Paul Against the Idols: The Areopagus Speech and the Church's Witness to Christ
Ep. 17
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Is Paul's famous Areopagus speech in Acts 17 a model for the Church's engagement with other religions? How so, or how not?
Teaching to Read the Old Testament as Scripture
Ep. 16
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With a view to recent developments in Old Testament studies, today’s Greystone Conversations episode reflects on what difference those developments should have on what’s happening in the seminary and Bible college classroom.
Reformed and Ritual? The Real Biblical World and Our Embrace of It
Ep. 13
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We do not realize just how extensively we assume things about reality in modern and western terms until, as close readers, we run up against the very different world not only at work in Scripture but persistently commended to us in Scripture.
Reformed and Ritual? Vocation: Male and Female as Doxological
Ep. 11
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In what ways does the final vision of the Church’s identity and activity at the end of Scripture in Revelation help us to understand the beginning of Scripture in Genesis in light of Leviticus?
Reformed and Ritual? Space: Home and Belonging
Ep. 10
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How can the Church’s embrace of space within the biblical ritual world amount to a commitment to the visible gathered Church which proclaims the truth of belonging and home to a world struggling with a loss of place and with homesickness?
Reformed and Ritual? Time: Living with the Grain of Reality
Ep. 9
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Our world is currently overwhelmed with cries for protests and resistance, and the confessional Reformed church often sits uneasily between a recognition of the place and need for certain cries of this sort and the equally important need to distance herself.
Reformed and Ritual? Why Recovering Ritual Matters
Ep. 8
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How might biblical ritual ontology and theology help us clearly and consistently proclaim the gospel of the incarnate Savior and his love for his confessing, singing, eating Body?
Window into the Christian Tradition: The Nature and Enduring Value of Lombard's Sentences
Ep. 6
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Today’s Church is in great need of reimagining the nature of theological education; a reassessment of its purpose, not as merely the pursuit of a degree, but as education in the classical sense of formation.
"According to the Scriptures": Lord Jesus Christ and the Two Testaments
Ep. 5
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In what way should we understand the New Testament and the Church's proclamation of Lord Jesus Christ as a proclamation that takes place according to the Scriptures?
The Old Testament as the Church's Scripture
Ep. 4
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Does the Old Testament continue to function for the church as Holy Scripture, and if so, how? This is a key question for the church’s faith and life.
Beneath Racism: Power, Polity, and Our Problem with Work(ers)
Ep. 3
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To what world do the most thoughtful and effective responses to racism belong? Perhaps it is the world in which attacking the roots of racism can look like picking up a shovel and honoring the Lord’s Day.
The Promises and Perils of Christian Discourse - Part 2
Ep. 2
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As readers and confessors of the Apostles' Creed, we live in a fallen and sinful world of suspicion and of distrust that far too often finds expression in our inability to hear one another in a context of communal or Christian discourse.
The Promises and Perils of Christian Discourse - Part 1
Ep. 1
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According to Scripture, the communicative life we have as God's image-bearers is strategically and providentially ordered to the concerns of God's law.