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.
Figural Reading and the Christian Life: The Figural Life of the Church
When believers participate as a church in the figural ordering of worship through its liturgy, especially in the Word and sacraments, they begin to see how their own lives are figured in Scripture. As they read Scripture in private devotion, they experience the blessings of figural reading, helping them to live a life unto God.
Figural Reading and the Christian Life: Providence and the Rule of Faith
What the church needs—contrary to modern interpretive agendas and hermeneutical obstacles—is a fides quaerens intellectum, a faith which seeks understanding, and not the other way around.