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Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton

Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

religion & spirituality christianity

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01:06:45

Discerning and Becoming the Image of Christ with...

Forging Ploughshares ·

2024/12/16

Jordan follows Maximus argument of deification to conclude that personhood, whether divine or human is not reducible or achievable apart from the reality of the person of Christ (in contradistinction from the work of David Bentley Hart's syllogistic understanding).(Sign up for the upcoming class, "Lonergan & the Problem of Theological Method": "Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904 - 1984) came to see the development of a modern scholarly method for theology as one of the most pressing challenges of

23:35

Sermon: The Synthesis of Knowing in Christ

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2024/12/14

Human conceptuality and understanding is limited by binaries, differences and irresolvable dualisms, but Paul describes the synthesizing work of Christ as a knowledge exceeding human conceptuality. (Sign up for the upcoming class, "Lonergan & the Problem of Theological Method": "Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904 - 1984) came to see the development of a modern scholarly method for theology as one of the most pressing challenges of 20th-century Christian thought. This course follows how Lonergan's view

56:06

Maximus on the Explanation of Prayer by Jordan Wood

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2024/12/09

Jordan Wood lays out Maximus explanation of the Lord's Prayer, which not only explains how prayer can both seek action from God and change the one praying, but accords with the logic of creation as incarnation.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

01:03:52

Beyond Plato, Milbank, Hart and Lonergan with Jordan...

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2024/12/07

Jordan Wood addresses the determinate good and love of Christ, in contrast to abstractions, and addresses the Neo-Platonism of Hart and Milbank, and the true orthodoxy of Hegel, as opposed to the received neo-Kantianism of Lonergan.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

01:06:02

The Independent and Intersecting Worlds Of Maximus'...

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2024/12/02

Jordan Wood, in part two of a three part series on Maximus' Mystagogia, describes the paradoxical relationship between church and world, soul and body, idealism and realism, the apophatic and cataphatic, and creation and incarnation, demonstrating that these independent realms are integrated and interdependent. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

27:23

Sermon: What Is The Proper Christian Response To Evil...

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2024/11/30

In Romans 13:1, it was under the darkest of circumstances that Paul outlined the responsibility of Christians to the state. In light of the fact that Jesus has been slain and Paul himself will shortly be murdered, Christians can defeat the powers through the same revolutionary subordination, defeating death (the power of this world's kingdoms) and establishing a resurrection Kingdom through the particular form of Christian civil disobedience.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to

01:07:53

Jordan Wood on Christologic

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2024/11/25

Jordan Wood introduces the alternative logic of the incarnation in which the symbol is the symbolized, and usual modes of ordering cause and effect and time and eternity, the apophatic and cataphatic, or the Platonic and Aristotelian are surpassed. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

27:53

Sermon: The Therapeutics of Desire in Encountering...

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2024/11/23

The two on the Road to Emmaus, illustrate that the embodied, the fleshly, the historical, the scriptural is inadequate in recognizing Christ. To be stuck with the literal, which describes this theological/political moment in the United States, can be likened (according to Maximus and Origen) to being consumed by fleshly desire, while desire directed to God in Christ is infinitely stretched out. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

01:03:50

Jordan Wood: Hierarchy and Human Sexuality in Maximus

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2024/11/18

Jordan Wood answers a series of questions concerning how Christ is to be conceived in regard to hierarchy, lower and higher, cause and effect, and Jordan depicts his embrace and occupation of the inside and outside of hierarchical order. He also discusses contemporary issues of biblical interpretation concerning the body and sexuality and how conscience and progress are to be applied to Bible reading.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

27:51

Sermon: Christ as the Singular Exegesis of God

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2024/11/16

Christ precedes and makes possible the fact of Scripture, both in its writing and formation, but also in the continuing reading and exegesis of Scripture. This fact is the unifying center of the faith, in answer to the multiplicities of Christian faiths now exposed in this politic moment, pointing to a deep theological crisis. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

01:00:56

Jordan Wood on Maximus' View of the Word As...

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2024/11/11

In this discussion of Maximus' paradoxical view of the space and time bending elements of the Word/Scripture as the continuation of incarnation, Scripture is set in the context of Christ as Word - the Word incorporating and incorporated into all things.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

29:13

Sermon: Finding Christ in the Collapse of Civilization

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2024/11/09

This sermon on coming to Christ outside the city (Hebrews 13:12-14) traces the inevitable collapse of every civilization, and the attempt of Republican politicians such as JD Vance, Josh Hawley, and Donald Trump, and cultural warriors like Jordan Peterson and Peter Thiel, to weaponize Christianity to aid in civilizational war is equated with the offer of the Devil to Christ. This is a paraphrasing and reapplication of the important talk of Paul Kingsnorth in a talk at First Things. If you enjoyed

01:00:05

Jordan Wood on Maximus' Treatment of Scripture

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2024/11/04

Maximus, unlike N. T. Wright or Peter Enns but like Origen and the Apostles, equates Scripture with the body, soul, and spirit of Christ, treating the inspiration of Scripture as continuing to occur through Christ, and not through the letter. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

32:30

Sermon: The Defeat of Death as Realization of...

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2024/11/02

The logic of Christ defeats the necessary logic surrounding death, in which life is fragmented and sequential in its beginning and end, but Christ's defeat of death introduces an order in which life reigns over death, and in this logic the life of Christ is an eternal reality, bringing together time and eternity, God and incarnation in a reciprocal relation in which beginning and end are united.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

55:37

Jordan Daniel Wood on the Necessity of Creation,...

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2024/10/28

In this conclusion to part 4, Jordan takes on the scholastic notion that creation and incarnation are not a necessity, suggesting that such a notion leaves us with no particular understanding of God or his love.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

28:59

Sermon: The Real World Work of Christ Versus Penal...

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2024/10/26

The Gospel of John depicts a real world deliverance from fear, real world healing from sin and slavery, and this is captured in John's deployment of Passover and treatment of Isaiah and the Suffering Servant, in which human evil (not God) results in his suffering and God brings mercy and healing from out of his oppression. This stands in contrast to Calvin's depiction of God punishing Jesus because he is identified with the Azazel Goat, identifying him with sin and, in many Calvinist's view, hating

01:05:16

Jordan Wood on Reciprocal Causality in Maximus

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2024/10/21

The death of Christ encompasses all dying and the life of Christ encompasses all of life, so that every individual true beginning and end is to be found in Christ.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

24:13

Sermon: The Work of Christ and the Two Goats of Yom...

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2024/10/19

Yom Kippur, the sacrifice of the Yahweh Goat and the sending of the Azazel Goat into the Abyss is the primary holy day for understanding the work of Christ. Clearly dividing and understanding the work of each goat arrives at a different meaning then those theories (like Calvin's) which fuse the work of the goats. Christ's life and death, like that of the Yahweh Goat, cleanses from sin, and the result of this cleansing is an end of exile and Sheol (the place of exile). If you enjoyed this podcast,

01:04:14

Jordan Wood On Maximus: The End is the Beginning as...

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2024/10/14

Jordan Daniel Wood explains how Maximus' notion of the end is the beginning constitutes an understanding of salvation that encompasses and goes beyond legal understandings or ideas of Christus Victor.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

27:54

Sermon: Jesus Death as the Exposure of Sacrificial...

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2024/10/12

Christ connects to himself a long anti-sacrificial tradition in the prophets, connecting sacrifice with disobedience and violence, and not instituted by God. Christ sees himself as exposing the history of murder and murderous religion, but to reduce Christ to a propitiating sacrifice erases this central part of his message. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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