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.
Strategies for Efficient Scholarship
Dr. Matthew Patton explored some strategies for efficient scholarship prior to his lectures in a Greystone module.
The Trinity and the Order of Reality
The world commended to us in Holy Scripture—as the real world to be inhabited by faith—is, in fact, a properly theological reality which is grounded in the Christian confession of the Triune God and of His good and holy purposes for His creation.
The Relationship between Scripture and Tradition
How might a closer study of the Reformers and their retrieval of the Christian tradition as authoritative help us balance the place of Scripture and tradition in theological discourse?
Eastern Orthodoxy and Calvin's Doctrine of Union with Christ
What can we as Protestants in the western tradition glean from the Eastern Orthodox regarding this notion of theosis? What theological pitfalls should we guard against in thinking on this topic, and how can Calvin's doctrine of union with Christ help us?
Domestic Violence and the Exodus as Paradigmatic Framework
This particular lecture considers how the Exodus serves as a paradigm for redemption in Christ and Christ's relationship to the Church, and therefore as a paradigm for the marriage relationship.
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.
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?