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 Violence of God
How then are we to read texts that portray God to be violent? If the Scriptures are wholly God-breathed and profitable, how might divine violence profit the modern theological mind? The answer lies, as many answers often do, with the way in which our Triune God has providentially ordered creation and His own acts within it.
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?
Theology of the Holy Spirit
Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to announce a new full course resource now available on Greystone Connect. In Theology of the Holy Spirit, Dr. Robert Letham explores the doctrine of the Holy Spirit from biblical and theological angles.
Texts & Studies: Polanus on the Lord’s Supper
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.
God’s Two Books: William Perkins on the Creeds
Ecclesiastical writings are all other ordinary writings of the church consenting with [the] Scriptures. These may be called the word of truth of God, so far forth as their matter or substance is consenting with the written Word of God.
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.
A Clean Union With the Levitical Woman
Leviticus 15 depicts intercourse and its physiology as a tabernacle scene. It places ordinary and proper sexual intercourse at the center (v. 18), and, as the chiastic structure makes clear, varying levels or degrees of impurity occupy the surrounding "areas" of that center just as in Israel's encampment and wilderness.
Getting the Atonement Right or Wrong: Reflections on the Imitation of Christ’s Sufferings and Its Limits
Removing substitutionary atonement, especially when we have biblical grounds for adopting it in the first place, is an unnecessary avenue to keep suffering from being a moral obligation in abusive relationships.
Texts & Studies: Cyril of Alexandria’s Assertions II-IV 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.
Penance and the Purpose of Law: A New Microcourse Resource
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.
Wisdom Through Callouses: Lessons from a Life in Woodworking
Our work shapes the world, yes. And it also shapes us. But this work is not work for its own sake. It is an attending to God through the particulars of the task at hand. Man is not homo faber; he is homo liturgicus.
Woman, Womb, and Wellspring
I cannot refuse the Church while I plead for her health: after all, in divine grace, the solution is in her, too. Yes, in her. As I point to what the Church must become in order to be, in deed and not just in word, the safest place for a woman, I will ask us to love our Mother:
Five Questions for Charles G. Kim, Jr.
Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Charles G. Kim, Jr. as Associate Fellow in Christian Tradition and Senior Review Editor for Greystone’s Texts and Studies series.
Jeremiah as Christian Scripture: A New Full Course Resource
In Jeremiah as Christian Scripture, Dr. Matthew Patton explores how a faithful, careful reading of Jeremiah leads to a deeper knowledge of the text, a growing devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ, and a greater love for the Church.
Is There Madness in Method: Some Rather Deranged Ramblings
We have two millennia of accumulated wisdom, biblical exegesis, and concentrated thought to guide us. While not all of it may seem fruitful, much if not most will.

