Ep. 49

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What do Reformed Christians mean today when they refer to limited atonement or particular redemption? Is it the same idea that has prevailed in the Reformed tradition historically and confessionally? Are there different Reformed ways of understanding and affirming the truth that God in Christ saves his people by his obedience and sacrifice?

Ep. 48

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A perhaps surprising amount of Holy Scripture is presented in terms of a dialogue where the identification of the different speakers is important to proper interpretation. Why is Scripture presented this way, and how does the form of Scripture belong to its message?

Ep. 47

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Scripture regularly deploys the imagery of agriculture and farming to describe the nature and dynamics of human faithfulness--or the lack thereof.

Ep. 46

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If the God confessed by the Church is real, then it is not merely ill advised but an act of rebellion against that God to attempt to approach Holy Scripture in order to demonstrate that He is and has revealed himself, rather than because He is and because he has revealed himself.

Ep. 45

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Does God sometimes unravel the ordinary recognizable form of the Church in times of great suffering, weakness, or judgment in order to re-weave her strands into a new form?

Ep. 44

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Alongside the important place of training, encouragement, and counsel or advice, is there also a need, not only for pastors but for all thoughtful Christians, for being pastored intellectually and theologically?

Ep. 43

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In today’s episode, Michael Sacasas and Dr. Mark A. Garcia conclude their conversation from last week on the life and work of Ivan Illich.

Ep. 42

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How do we better understand the way things should be and how we ought to be by reflecting wisely on how and why things are the way they are? To recover our humanity in an increasingly inhuman world, we must recover tools of conviviality.

Ep. 41

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Is there an order to reality and does Holy Scripture commend that reality to us to believe now or does it only record the way the ancients saw things? Today we are pleased to make available to you the opening lecture in one of the most portent of Greystone's full-course module offerings.

Ep. 40

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Is the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son of God evidence of the church's departure from the simplicity and straight-forwardness of the scriptures?

Ep. 39

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If the church is facing a multifaceted and complex challenge in theology, hermeneutics, and liturgy what does this challenge look like on the ground in the context of actual and continuing church ministry?

Ep. 38

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Who am I if I lose my memory of others--and even myself--as a consequence of dementia? Can I still be who I am at all if I do? If so, how?

Ep. 37

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What do we mean--or what should we mean--by the term "biblical theology"? Is it the same as the New Testament use of the Old Testament?

Ep. 36

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As we turn our attention to possible remedies for the current situation, does our concern for ideas suggest a new kind of Gnosticism or is there another way to think about the rehabilitation of the theological life of the church in relationship to Scripture and the ministry?

Ep. 35

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How long can the Christian faith survive in recognizable form in a church context where the work of theology is held in suspicion and the priority of divine authorship of Holy Scripture plays little to no role in Biblical interpretation? Is there not a true sense in which the frontlines of the Church's spiritual warfare today is in the library?

Ep. 34

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The Church's faith is held, confessed, and lived invariably in a friction-full relationship to the world. What then can we learn about Christian identity and faithfulness now by considering such faithfulness in an older era?

Ep. 33

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Do the particular truths of the Christian faith generate options for the faithful exercise of the Church's mission to the world, and at the same time rule out some missionary efforts, models, and approaches as not in keeping with the Christian faith?

Ep. 32

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Why have professional historians of the Reformation and post-Reformation era of Reformed theology and confessionalization argued that "Calvinism" is not only a misleading term but--somewhat provocatively, perhaps--practically useless?

Ep. 31

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What do the Westminster Catechisms mean by speaking of our chief end as glorifying God and enjoying him forever?

Ep. 30

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Today's Greystone Conversation episode explores the nature of the conscience and the ways that the very idea of the conscience underwent a major shift in keeping with changes in theological anthropology.