
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.
Getting the Atonement Right or Wrong: Reflections on Recent Models and Concerns
The Last Supper accounts have elements that we cannot dismiss from our soteriology, namely, Christ’s death is the means by which forgiveness and release from sins happen.
The 2023 Greystone Winter Feast
This month, Greystone marked God’s faithfulness through the times and seasons of the last year with our annual Winter Feast, the continuation of a lively tradition in which we aim to encourage this way of life as a Greystone-wide phenomenon.
Texts & Studies: Polanus on Councils
Greystone Texts & Studies is a bi-weekly Members-only series of electronic and print publications of otherwise inaccessible historic and contemporary resources for Reformed theology, worship, and edification.
We Have a Solution (But Do We Want It?)
I would like to invite you into the biblical solution for a grievous problem—the principled maltreatment of women in culture and too often in the Church—by way of a most intriguing and theologically rich biblical motif: the eschatological ultimacy of the feminine as a kind of sacred space.
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.
We Have a Problem
There is much talk of church planting, missions, doctrinal orthodoxy, and the rosiest versions of a given denominational history. Meanwhile men are harming their wives and calling it an exercise of their headship.
Kline on Old Testament Exegesis: A Free Greystone Resource
Meredith G. Kline never published a full treatment of exegesis on the Old Testament. However, Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to host his over 20 hours of lectures on Old Testament exegesis in Zechariah—newly edited and remastered—for FREE on Greystone Connect.
Letters From a Mentor: The Discipleship Purpose
Since mentorship’s purpose is to make good Christian servants of the Church, Basil understood that the mentorship relationship had really just begun with Amphilochius’ consecration as Bishop.
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.
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.
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?
Kline on the Prophets: A Free Greystone Resource
Meredith G. Kline never published a full treatment on the Prophets of the Old Testament. However, Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to host his nearly 30 hours of lectures on the Prophets—newly edited and remastered—for FREE on Greystone Connect.
Letters From a Mentor: The Discipleship Initiative
Basil implores a younger saint to come be discipled in the way of the Christian life; in preaching, in theology, but also in conduct, in faith, in suffering. In this way, Basil’s letter serves as an example for the Greystone model and for pastors worldwide; here is old ways made new.
The Greystone Parting Song
Historically, a “parting glass” was one last drink enjoyed as the departing group had begun to leave, and was meant to give strength for the travels ahead.
Stepping Back From Mary to the Roman Catholic Question: Why the Remedy for Converts to Rome is a Better Reformed Church, and Perhaps a Reckoning
Reading Mary forces such questions as we endeavor to do justice not only to her, a mother of the Faith, but to the One who has written of her precisely in the ways and in the time he did, and who has called us to hear what he says well.
Theological Primer: Impassibility and the Incarnation
Does the impassibility of God commend to us a God who is distant and detached from our suffering? No, because the impassible God took on flesh and he, Jesus Christ, suffered in our place.