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Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton

Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

religion & spirituality christianity

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25:14

Sermon: Eclipsing the Mirror Stage in Mirroring Christ

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2024/04/20

In two passages from I and II Corinthians, Paul utilizes the mirror or mirroring to illustrate incompleteness and immaturity and fullness. He points to the focus on the spectral, the partial, the created - as in many religions which focus on the sun and its eclipse - as the problem. In Psychoanalysis this mirror stage is universal and without cure, but Paul depicts passage beyond the mirror stage in mirroring Christ.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support

32:35

Christ and Culture: From Eliade and Berger to Hart...

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2024/04/15

Jim, David, Tim, Brian and Paul discuss the possible relationships between Christ and culture, particularly in a secular age, and discuss the opposed positions of Mircea Eliade and Peter Berger and the resolution posed by David Bentley Hart and Peter Berger.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

23:30

Sermon: A Neo-Chalcedonian Understanding of the...

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2024/04/13

The Council of Chalcedon, as read by Maximus the Confessor, provides a solution to the issue of difference and unity, the problem of the one and the many, or the answer to how their can be unifying love in a universe seemingly built on dualism, difference, and multiplicity.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

28:25

Sermon: Resurrection as the Center of Christian Faith

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2024/04/08

There are a variety of Christianities in which resurrection is excluded (theological liberalism), not needed (fundamentalism and penal substitution), or deemphasized (evangelicalism or pietism). The answer to the resurrectionless or semi-resurrectionless religions is the gospel, as the defeat of death, a cosmic salvation, a lived righteousness, a resurrection kingdom, lived in the Spirit now. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

34:23

Michael Hardin on a Girardian Approach to the New...

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2024/04/06

In the conclusion to the interview with Girard specialist Michael Hardin, Michael explains how a non-sacrificial hermeneutic, taken up in the Wesleyan Quadrilateral of Scripture, tradition, reason and experience, given a Christological center is the dynamic for reading the Bible and understanding God, not through morality but in character and ethics. The notion of doubling, rivalry, the rise of passion, and the failure of evangelicalism in accounting for the Jesus Movement are also discussed. Become

32:18

Sermon: The Triumphal Entry and Jesus' Defeat of the...

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2024/04/01

In John's account of the triumphal entry the resurrection of Lazarus triggers the events leading to Jesus' kingly reception, and then the turning of the crowd and his death as a scapegoat. Jesus exposes the history of violence and murder and explains his coming death as the defeat of Satan and the answer to mythic religious violence. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:00:13

Michael Hardin Links the Work of René Girard to...

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2024/03/30

In part one of this two part conversation, Michael Hardin, a leading expert on René Girard shows the direct parallels between Girard and Maximus on mimesis, desire, the object cause of desire, and the genealogy of violence, and how it is the very character of God, in kenotic love, delivers creation and the crown of creation from the futility of death. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

54:39

The Problem of Religion and Culture

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2024/03/25

In this new series on world cultures and religions, Tim, Jon, Brian, David, Simon, and Paul discuss the impact of the secular on religion, creating a distinct category "religion" separate from culture in which faith and practice become visibly distinct. The obscuring role of religion in Peter Berger and Rene Girard are examples.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

28:05

Sermon: The Scandal of the Cross Exposing the Scandal...

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2024/03/23

The serpent points to a false desire, sin points to a false understanding of the law, and the idol poses a false god, which in each instance serves as an obstacle to what it promises, giving rise to the obstacle cause of desire. Christ exposes this scandalous lie, but Christ and the cross become a scandal or a stone of stumbling for those who continue to believe the lie, or he is the chief corner stone of a new form of worship for those who believe this truth.(Sign up for the course, The Theology

33:50

Reflections On Our Conversation With Jordan Wood and...

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2024/03/18

Matt and Paul discuss key points raised by Jordan Wood and his upcoming class for PBI concerning Hegel, concerning the depth of theosis, and the meaning of being subject to fire in a universal understanding of Christianity. (Sign up for the course, The Theology of Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Wood. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The course will run from 2024/3/25–2024/5/17 and will meet on Saturdays.) Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to

02:03:54

Jordan Wood on the PBI Course: The Theology of...

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2024/03/16

Paul and Matt discuss with Jordan the upcoming course on Maximus, discussing Christ as the foundation of a reason bringing together the antinomies (or limits of reason) pointed out by Kant, accounted for in the post-Kantians and incorporated into Bulgakov's sophiology, and Jordan suggests an alternative reading of Hegel in which he is an orthodox Christian working out a form of thought on the order of Maximus.(Sign up for the course, The Theology of Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Wood

36:43

The Defeat of the Covenant with Death in Romans 9-11

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2024/03/11

Jim, Jeff, Brian, and Paul discuss Paul's use of Isaiah's picture of the covenant with death, and universal deliverance and salvation, as an alternative reading to Romans 10-11, as opposed to justification theory.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

57:54

Romans 9-11: Double Predestination and Christian Zionism

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2024/03/09

Jeff, Jim, Brian, and Paul discuss the role of the false teacher in Romans 9-11, Douglas Campbell's idea that works of the law was a problem which occurred only with the advent of Christianity, and the role of Christian Zionism and anti-Semitism in justification theory.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

38:47

The Reconstitution of the Subject From Romans 7 to...

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2024/03/04

Jeff, Jim, David, Brian, and Paul compare and contrast the Human Subject of chapter 7 and the reconstituted Subject of Romans chapter 8. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:00:09

Romans 7: The Split Within as the Sickness Unto Death

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2024/03/02

Jim, Jeff, Brian, David, and Paul discuss Romans chapter 7 as providing a diagnosis of the human disease, in which the self is divided against itself. In Calvinism and justification theory this is presumed to be the normal Christian life, but this is Paul's picture of the human disease. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

41:31

Does Baptism Make an Ontological Difference?

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2024/02/26

In the conclusion to our discussion of Romans 6, Matt, Jim, Brian, David and Paul discuss the question as to how to describe the difference in the Christian life. God's universal plan of salvation and the reality of evil create the question whether there is an ontological distinction with those in Christ.Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:03:56

The Dialectic of the Law Displaced in Being Joined to...

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2024/02/24

Jim, David, Brian, Matthew, Jonathan, Matt, and Paul discuss how the law functions as a deep grammar giving rise to the antinomies of a dialectic which functions as an end in itself. Romans 6 describes baptism as the cure to this dialectical antagonism by being joined to the body of Christ in baptism. Here the sign no longer floats free of the signified. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:04:23

Cosmic Conversion From the Elementary Principles of...

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2024/02/19

Jeff, Matt, Brian, Jon, David, and Paul discuss Louis Martyn's depiction of the Galatian heresy as captivity to the elementary principles as this can be equated with Douglas Campbell's picture of the false teacher, and how conversion pertains to mind transformation through deliverance from this cosmos through Christ as fundamental reason. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

26:32

Sermon: Exposing the Idol of Modernity

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2024/02/17

Modernity and secularism in capitalism are made of the same stuff as Aaron's Golden Calf, captured in Paul's picture of the law as an idolatrous temptation, after Christ. The principalities and powers continue to reify that which has no substance and the Gospel exposes this idolatrous power. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

45:06

The Reign of Death, Not Law, as the Primary Human...

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2024/02/12

Matthew, Brian, Jon, Matt, Jeff, and Paul discuss how the false teacher's understanding has melded with the Augustinian misreading of Romans 5 to make law and sin the primary human problem, while in Paul's Gospel, the orientation to death is the cause of sin and the primary human problem. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

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