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.
Texts & Studies: Cyril of Alexandria on the Trinity
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.
Letters From a Mentor: Serving the Church
Following in the steps of Basil the Great, godly mentors give their disciples opportunities to encourage the Church and to be encouraged by other godly leaders in the Church.
Woman, Childbirth, Impurity, and Leviticus
Modern criticism has functioned for at least a century with a default reading of Leviticus which regards it as undeniable proof-positive that the Bible is part of the problem. Instead of dismissing this notion, attending to it carefully enriches our appreciation of how Leviticus is in fact part of the solution.
The Pactum Salutis and Eternal Subordination of the Son
Should one speak of the Son eternally submitting to the Father if the simplicity of God is true, which means therefore that God has one essence and one will that is identical with his essence?
On Intellectual Humility
For those relentless for retrieval, they will search in vain for humility in the works of Aristotle. Humility is for the weak minded. That’s why humility is chiefly a theological virtue. It is the great sage, Jesus Christ himself, who radically subverts the classical virtue tradition.
Just Like a Woman, But What Is a Woman?
The statutes and ordinances of the Law, the narratives, a wide range of biblical types and figures, the wisdom literature, and the New Testament Gospels and Writings all commend to us a vision of the unique theo-ontology of a woman as a kind of sacred space.
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.

