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Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton

Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

religion & spirituality christianity

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28:48

Sermon: The Violence of the Old Testament as...

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2024/10/05

In Galatians, Paul explains that Christians are to read the law allegorically for their edification and to cling to the law for interpreting Christ is to continue to be enslaved by the elementary principles. As Origen explains, to cling to the violence and lust of the law by reading literally and historically rather than applying spiritually is to continue in enslavement to lust, idolatry, and violence.To register for the upcoming class on René Girard with Michael Hardin, Rene Girard and Nonviolent

23:55

Sermon: Joy

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2024/09/28

Joy is integral to the Christian life as described by Peter, commanded by Paul, and as defined by love and mutual indwelling by Dionysius and Maximus, who describe this joy and love as ecstatic longing and giving, culminating in the kenotic love of Christ. (To register for the upcoming class on René Girard with Michael Hardin, Rene Girard and Nonviolent Atonement, go to https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The Course will run from the second week of October to the first week in

44:32

René Girard and Nonviolent Atonement with Michael Hardin

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2024/09/14

In this conversation, Michael Hardin introduces his class with Ploughshares Bible Institute on the work of René Girard. He describes the 8 week course which will begin the first week of October. Michael was a friend of Girard and was present at the founding of the Colloquium On Violence and Religion, and he will share published and unpublished work from Girard and others detailing the important work of this key thinker. To register for the course go to

44:25

Jordan Wood: Escaping Duality/Non-Duality and...

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2024/09/07

Jordan Wood answers a series of question on duality and nonduality, contemplation, embodiment, and time, in his explanation of Maximus the Confessor.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

58:31

Jordan Wood: Privation and False Incarnation in Maximus

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2024/09/02

Jordan Daniel Wood delineates two forms of evil, privation and false incarnation in Maximus, and also discusses the object of human desire as the determinate good of incarnation.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

25:22

Sermon: Salvation Precedes Creation

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2024/08/31

The Lamb sacrificed from the foundation of the world is the singular Logos from which creation proceeds and holds together. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:03:22

Jordan Daniel Wood: The End is the Beginning Through...

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2024/08/26

Jordan Wood explains how it is that the processes of being human are exceeded by the telos of deification, the fulfillment or end but also the beginning of what it means to be human.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

26:04

Sermon: The Personal Design Argument

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2024/08/24

The comprehensible yet infinite depth of the universe grounding modern science and medicine arises both through the understanding that God is legislator and creator and that in Christ this person is working not only as designer and sustainer but healer and controller, such that the person and not the laws are in control. This understanding was extended into science by the philosophy of Michael Polanyi who saw the necessity of the personal in faith for understanding the world.Become a Patron! If you

43:51

Jordan Wood: Understanding Divine Foreknowledge...

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2024/08/19

Jordan Wood, in this conclusion to the discussion on the person of Christ answers a series of questions on personhood and provides a unique insight into the foreknowledge of God in Christ.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

53:22

Jordan Wood: Not Mere Man Nor Naked God

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2024/08/17

Jordan Wood, in this lecture discusses the personhood of Christ, the role or meaning of such terms as natural, Logos, and hypostatic union, and he critiques the work of David Bentley Hart in failing to grasp the implications of the neo-Chalcedonian understanding. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:02:17

Jordan Wood: The Whole Mystery of Christ

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2024/08/12

Jordan Daniel Wood focuses in on the key passage in Maximus explaining the whole mystery of Christ as this pertains to all things, but particularly the role of personhood and identity in Christ.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

57:50

Jordan Wood: Synthesis is Everything

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2024/08/10

Jordan Daniel Wood concludes the discussion of Maximus and synthesis, explaining how Christ, even in the midst of sin and false synthesis or through the passions, brings all things together in his life and the life of the Christian.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

27:52

Sermon: Embodied Versus Disembodied Faith

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2024/08/05

The Western tradition from Augustine and Descartes has developed focus on thought, propositions and doctrine separated from practice and ethics. This disembodied form of the faith stands in contrast to Paul's description of being embodied - living sacrifices and it contrasts with the Eastern understanding exemplified in Maximus the Confessor.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

59:35

Jordan Wood: Understanding the Life and Theology of...

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2024/08/03

Jordan Wood introduces the controversies surrounding the life of Maximus and also introduces the framework of his theology as cosmic incarnation, providing a synthesis for all things. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

23:26

Sermon: The Scripture that Kills Versus the Spirit of...

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2024/07/29

In 2 Corinthians Paul describes the letter or scripture as deadly, as this unenduring reality is not an end in itself. Absolutizing the symbolic order in law or in some form of moral imperative leads directly to evil, not because this is a possible reality but because it obscures the truth that freedom comes from God and there is no autonomous realm of law, nature, reason, or will.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

52:08

Orientalism and the Power of Ideology

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2024/07/27

In this concluding discussion of Orientalism Jon, Tim, Jim, Simon, Brian, Jonathan, and Paul, consider how human understanding is subject to cultural and nationalistic ideology, shaping science, psychology, and impacting Christianity, particularly in Japan and the United States.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

24:21

Sermon: Partakers of Divine Consciousness

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2024/07/22

Peter says we are partakers of the divine nature, which the early church called theosis or divinization. This is a concept obscured by western atonement theories and the taking up of Greek philosophical thought, but which in G.W.F. Hegel is reappropriated and expressed as obtaining God's consciousness.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:02:52

Orientalism and Cultures of Death

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2024/07/20

John, Jim, Brian, and Paul discuss how Japan reversed western notions of orientalism, particularly in psychology, so as to create a unified national identity dealing in death in both inward self-identity and outward colonialism. Japan is a case in point of how cultures reify death and obscure the truth of what it means to be human.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

25:38

Sermon: Kenotic Truth as the Foundation of Consciousness

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2024/07/15

In Philippians 2 Paul spells out an alternative picture of God and reality which is often thought to be an exception, but God poured out in Kenotic love on the cross is an alternative conception of God, reality, truth, thinking and consciousness.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

50:41

The Bhagavad Gita and Sophia

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2024/07/13

Matt explains to Jon, Tim, Simon, Jim and Paul how Sergius Bulgakov's sophia provides and explanation for the wisdom to be found in the Gita and world religions.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

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