Free Resources for the Month of July
Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to offer all of our microcourses, special lectures, and postgraduate seminars for FREE for the month of July. Learn more about these resources below!
Free Courses
with Dr. Fred Sanders
In this micro-course Dr. Sanders explains and explores this deep relationship by expounding the doctrine of eternal processions and temporal missions, ultimately showing how a right theology of God determines a proper and well-ordered--rather than disordered--grasp of the gospel, including the atonement, Christology, pneumatology, and the Church.
with Dr. Mark A. Garcia
This course encourages students to engage critically with the past a means of understanding and offering a critique of the present. Christianity is not rediscovered every Lord’s Day; it is shaped by its past; only as we come to grapple with that past can we really see the present in proper context.
with Dr. Charles Lee Irons
This course will attempt to retrieve the doctrine of eternal generation for today by considering (1) its scriptural basis, (2) its development in the history of theology, and (3) its contemporary retrieval versus Eternal Functional Subordination (EFS).
with Dr. Robert Letham
The justly famous Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus is a series of Doctrinal sermons preached by the Nazianzan in Constantinople in the year 380. Among the most important trinitarian theologians of our time, Dr. Robert Letham is eminently qualified to lead this series of lessons and discussion of a close reading of the Orations.
with Dr. Michael Allen
This course of lectures involves a close study of the writings of the late John Webster. Students grow in their ability to read his texts directly and to appreciate the systematic framework of his thought more broadly. His practice of theology is examined with respect to various doctrines (e.g. God, covenant, church) as well as with respect to its underlying methodological approach to “theological theology” as an exercise in “biblical reasoning.”
And Much More
We Distinguish: Scholastic Distinctions in Reformed Theology and Ministry
with Dr. Mark Jones
Calvinism is popular today in certain evangelical circles, but what do we mean by the term? There are some misunderstandings about Reformed theology that need to be corrected. This course will show how the scholastic method that was used by several generations of reformers can aid students of theology in their quest to know and promote theological truth. We will focus on the way the reformers viewed Scripture as a source of knowledge of God, the doctrine of the Trinity, the place of good works in the Christian life, and covenant theology. We will also note how these reformers managed diverse views within ecclesiastical harmony, content to leave some questions unanswered.
Penance and the Purpose of Law
with Dr. Atria Larson
It has often been remarked in Reformed circles that the third mark of the true church is the ‘right administration of discipline’. Experienced pastors and elders know that debates over discipline can tear a church apart as much as debates over preaching, sacraments, or other matters. Discipline has been a topic as perennial in the church as questions of doctrine and liturgical practices because the church constitutes, as Augustine noted, a hospital for sick sinners. This microcourse investigates the roots of Reformed discipline in a place where Reformed people rarely think to look, or even cringe to consider: medieval penitential discipline.
History and Theology of Eastern Orthodoxy
with Dr. Mark A. Garcia
The Eastern Orthodox (or “Orthodox Catholic”) Church tradition is large, mysterious, and often mistaken as a version of Roman Catholicism. It has proven attractive to some Christians in recent decades who, justly frustrated with evangelical low-church liturgies and historical amnesia, have opted for the aesthetically captivating and apparently simple, ancient tradition of the Orthodox church. This course is an overview and exploration of Orthodoxy that proceeds along two lines. In one, the history and reality of Orthodox theology will be separated from common myths and misunderstandings. The areas of special focus include the councils and tradition, icons and iconography, Trinity and Christology, liturgy and liturgical aesthetics, theosis, hesychasm, apophaticism, and the divine energies. The positive contributions of Orthodoxy--real and potential--will be commended for serious consideration. The second line of the course explores the liturgical and theological vulnerabilities and errors of Orthodoxy. The history of encounters between Orthodoxy and the Reformed tradition, briefly exploring the example of Cyril Lucaris, will be surveyed, and each of the distinctive features of Orthodox liturgy and theology will be evaluated against the Scriptures and the Reformed tradition.
Rescuing Mary from Rome: The Virgin in Scripture, Theology, and the Church
with Dr. Mark A. Garcia
As a case study in biblical hermeneutics and theology, this series surveys Marian themes in Scripture and in Roman Catholicism with a view to identifying the "leap" made from a variety of legitimate biblical motifs and possibilities to select illegitimate, distinctly Roman Catholic conclusions.
Leviticus as Christian Scripture
with Dr. Mark A. Garcia
Working from important contributions made by old and recent readers of Leviticus, including Ephraim Radner, Richard Whitekettle, and others, this guide into Leviticus explores the difference ritual theology makes to issues of gender, Christian identity and hope, Christian reading and use of Scripture, and the Gospel.
Over 40 other microcourses, special lectures, symposia, and seminars!
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