
Greystone Conversations
The podcast of Greystone Theological Institute, exploring questions of theology, ethics, church faith and life, and more from the perspective of confessional Reformed catholicity.
Episodes
73 episodes
Reformed Symbolics: The Anglican Formularies
Once more we ask: how might it affect our perception and appreciation of the Anglican Formularies and the Anglican tradition if we were to ask what contribution that tradition makes to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, instead of t...
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Reformed Symbolics: The Three Forms of Unity
How might it affect our perception and appreciation of the Continental Reformed tradition if we were to ask what contribution that tradition makes to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, instead of thinking of it as a relatively isola...
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The Westminster Standards among the Reformed Symbols
How might it affect our perception and appreciation of Westminster Presbyterianism if we were to ask what contribution Presbyterianism makes to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, instead of thinking of it as a relatively isolated, e...
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On Church Councils with Todd Rester
What are the roles of church councils in the overall faith and life of God’s people? Is there more to say than simply to note their importance for the history of theology? Are they infallible or fallible, antiquated or still viable options for ...
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The Good Life as the Ordinary Life? A Conversation with Ephraim Radner
What would you write to your adult children about the good life? Would it strike the modern notes of making the most of yourself and your abilities, seizing every opportunity, making a difference in the world? Or would it focus on the beauty an...
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Is a Bloodless Atonement Better? Or How Theology Connects to Life
In our day, while biblical and theological studies certainly continue to abound, questions about the traditional Christian understanding of the atonement are not primarily focused on the question is it biblical. Nor are they focused on whether ...
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Augustine, Humility, and Preaching
What if preaching is not only to be carried out with humility, but is also itself a humble form of the Word of God in power? Augustine is known mostly for his large and profound theological treatises, but how can this most influential of theolo...
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Blue Chip Ministry in a Blue-Collar Context
What might it look like to refuse generalizations about faithful pastoral ministry and allow the people and context of actual ministerial labor to inform the measure of faithfulness?At Greystone, we make much of the ordinary sources of w...
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Domestic Violence in Pastoral Ministry: Challenges and Responsibilities
Today’s Greystone Conversations episode is taken from Greystone’s upcoming Summer module, Domestic Violence in Theology & Pastoral Ministry—a module which, in many respects, mi...
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Jeremiah and the Faithless Bride
How might a thematic analysis of Jeremiah, particularly the theme of the faithless bride, help pastors better serve their churches? What can Christians learn about the futility and dangers of sin by studying the Book of Jeremiah, and how might ...
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Luke, Sacred Time, and the Church
To an extent which must be amusing to some, surprising to others, and perhaps even a bit unsettling to still others, all year long Greystone seems to be asking the question, what time is it? Is this a question the Scriptures themselves invite u...
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Eloquence Wed to Wisdom
In today’s episode of Greystone Conversations, we conclude to our conversation regarding craftsmanship and workmanship, and consider what might account for the resurgence of interest in craftmanship and the trades. This is the final episode in ...
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Situated Creatures: The Ethics of Skill, Perception, and Habit
In today’s episode of Greystone Conversations, we return to our conversation regarding craftsmanship and workmanship, and consider the ethics of workmanship in skill, perception, and habit. This is the forth episode in our five part series....
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Durability, Diversity, and Value of Work: The End(s) in View
In today’s episode of Greystone Conversations, we return to our conversation regarding craftsmanship and workmanship, and consider today the ends in view of such a theory of workmanship we have endeavored to express. This is the third episode i...
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Workmanship of Risk vs. Workmanship of Certainty
In today’s episode of Greystone Conversations, we return to our conversation regarding craftsmanship and workmanship, and consider today the special significance of David Pye to our overall interest in this series. This is the second episode in...
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Forming In and For Wisdom: Introducing the Greystone MAP
Welcome to Greystone Conversations and the first episode in this special series focused on explaining and commending an exciting new initiative at Greystone Theological Institute, which in one way is rather unique and in other ways is deeply tr...
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The Disruptive Church (and How Greystone Is Helping the Cause)
It is trendy these days to be disruptive. Though it is a word that may seem to refer to a negative reality, “disruptive” is a word used in business, academic, and in many other contexts to refer to an upset that is needed and salutary. Is there...
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Dividing Scripture: Chuck Hill on the First Chapter Divisions
The form of the Word belongs to the meaning of the Word, and this includes its providentially ordered literary presentation. How do the Church’s ways of dividing up the Scriptures inform the way the Church has heard and read the Scriptures?...
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Death, Courage, and Eschatology
Today we reflect on death, courage, and eschatology. Death and eschatology are often connected, of course, but courage takes its shape in relation to both of them. The questions that may elucidate the relationship could be put this way: How do ...
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Theological Faithfulness in Difficult Times: Remembering James Ussher
What is the form and dynamic of faithful ministry and theology in a contested time? And in what ways might those with Reformed Anglican sympathies appreciate and capitalize upon the very best of that tradition without falling for Anglo-catholic...
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An Anatomy of the Soul: The Human Person in the Psalms
How should we understand the psalmists who teach that God tests the kidneys and the heart? Who make much of our eyes, ears, and more, in an overtly spiritual and theological way? What is the anatomy of the soul according to the Psalms, which, i...
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Fantastic Christian Realism: Experiencing Wangerin's The Book of the Dun Cow
There is a beautiful mystery in the fact that we often think of certain novels and poems in terms of our experiences at the time we first read them. This is both appropriate and fascinating, especially when second and third readings of the same...
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Jesus Christ and the Lint-Roller? Typology, Figuration, and the Form of the Son
One way in which the biblical-theological work of Geerhardus Vos in the late 19th and early 20th century differed from what then and since has been called biblical theology was Vos’s commitment to the vertical dimension of history and revelatio...
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Constructing the Cosmos, the Woman, the Glory: Proverbs 31 Reconsidered
Is there a Christian reading of Proverbs, and of Proverbs 31 in particular, that is both determined by Christ and also materially relevant, even constitutive, for personal, familial, communal, and ecclesial wisdom? Is that reading coherent with...
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The Diverse Unity of the Reformed Tradition: The Myth and Reality of "Hypothetical Universalism"
What do Reformed Christians mean today when they refer to limited atonement or particular redemption? Is it the same idea that has prevailed in the Reformed tradition historically and confessionally? Are there different Reformed ways of underst...
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