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Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton

Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

religion & spirituality christianity

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35:26

Tom Evans Explains Eastern Ancestral Sin and Compares...

Forging Ploughshares ·

2023/05/15

Tom Evans describes the difference between ancestral sin and Augustinian original sin and compares it to Paul Axton's Psychotheological approach. Where Augustinian original sin leaves both sin and salvation a mystery (giving rise to legal exchange theories like divine satisfaction and penal substitution), ancestral sin, like psychotheology, provides a diagnosis of the human predicament and a real-world cure. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our

24:49

Sermon: Christ the Quintessential Jew

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2023/05/13

Paul Axton preaches - Christianity has often given rise to antisemitism, as with Martin Luther's direct inspiration of Adolph Hitler, but rightly understood Christ occupies the Hebraic universe of meaning and Christianity is simply a different orientation in this same symbolic universe. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

26:52

Sermon: Can Christianity Take Root in the United States?

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2023/05/08

Paul Axton preaches - In Shusaku Endo's description, Christianity cannot take root in Japan, which he describes as a mud swamp, but every culture has its corrosive effects on the gospel, particularly as in America, where we may be blind to these effects. The resolution is to come to a correct understanding of Jesus relationship to Jewish culture and religion as its proper end. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

01:04:05

LGBTQIA+ - A Remake

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2023/05/06

Jon and Paul discuss gender reassignment surgery and issues of gender and possible theological approaches to the subject. Jon explains the fully affirming Episcopal perspective and the parameters and limitations of that perspective. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

25:18

Sermon: Experiencing God

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2023/04/29

Paul Axton preaches - In this secular age the experience of God may be lost, as Paul describes, due to a pursuit of human wisdom and signs. But in Christ the fulness of divine experience opens all of life to the fulness of a different reality and experience. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

56:10

A Reflection on Our Conversation with Jordan Wood and...

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2023/04/24

Matt, Jon, and Paul reflect on our conversation with Jordan, including his departure from David Bentley Hart, and Jon takes up Hart's understanding and suggests a rapprochement through Bulgakov. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

25:22

Sermon: Eternal Incarnation

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2023/04/22

Paul Axton preaches - Is the incarnation finished with the resurrection and ascension of Christ or is this now an eternal fact about God and reality? There is a form of Christianity that posits a complete divide between faith and practice, body and soul, and heaven and earth (implicitly or explicitly assuming the incarnation is provisional) which misses the beauty of God revealed in the world and real world defeat of evil. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to

01:45:43

UFOs and Theology with Ambrose Andreano

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2023/04/17

Matt and Paul discuss the UFO phenomenon with Ambrose Andreano, who has written the book Angels, Archons and Aliens. Some of the the explanations for the phenomena and possible implications are considered. Register now For the Class Marginalization and Restorative Justice https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

23:10

Sermon: The Resurrection Perspective

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2023/04/15

Paul Axton preaches - The portrayal in each of the resurrection appearances is grief, initial misrecognition of Jesus, and then a shift in perspective. It is within this shifted perspective that the gospel is proclaimed, the New Testament is written, the church is formed, and two thousand years of witnesses come forth. Register now For the Class Marginalization and Restorative Justice: https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider

24:44

Sermon: Two Creations and True and False Incarnation

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2023/04/10

Paul Axton preaches - Colossians poses the incarnation of Christ and redemption as the true creation and the true beginning, in which Genesis 2 is made a reality and the false creation and incarnation of Genesis 3 is suspended. Register now For the Class Marginalization and Restorative Justice https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

57:35

Marginalization and Restorative Justice with Jonathan...

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2023/04/08

Matt and Paul discuss with Jon the upcoming class, Marginalization and Restorative Justice: A biblical and theological study of the Kingdom of God - an approach to issues of power and inequality among oppressed groups including gender, race, disability, and socio-economic status. Register now for the class https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

53:52

Jordan Daniel Wood On His Departure From David...

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2023/04/03

In Part 3 of Matt and Paul's interview with Jordan Wood, Jordan differentiates his and Maximus' focus on the person of Christ from David Hart's clinging to formal categories and tendency toward abstraction. Jordan also addresses the issue of panentheism, his departure from Thomas Aquinas, and his understanding of the role of nature and grace in Maximus. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

29:18

Sermon: Philemon and the Abolition of the City of Man

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2023/04/01

Paul Axton preaches - The book of Philemon is a worked example of the implication of the gospel in that the slave/master relationship is displaced in the church by the koinonia of brothers and sisters. Yet this obvious implication of the gospel, worked out in Philemon, is rejected as is indicated in the reception of the book and the continuation of slavery among Christians. This may be because the implication of the gospel is a complete overturning of the city, the law, and the economy of the the

53:54

Jordan Daniel Wood on Creation is Incarnation in...

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2023/03/27

In part 2 of our interview with Jordan Wood, Jordan soars to amazing heights. Jordan explains to Matt and Paul, Maximus' formula "creation is incarnation" and the time and space bending implications of Jesus Christ as being at the beginning of all things. We also discuss how it is the fall occurs with the beginning with creation ex-nihilo. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

28:49

Sermon: Putting on the Armor of the Gospel as Salvation

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2023/03/25

Paul Axton preaches - Paul’s depiction of the armor of God in Ephesians is a summary of his gospel with the focus on taking it up and doing it. This is not simply an allegory or illustration, but the very center of Paul's gospel as presented in Ephesians. It is the power of the Constantinian shift which will tend to spiritualize and trivialize this depiction, and it is precisely against a Constantinian Christianity and this sort of insidious power that this armor protects. Become a Patron! If you

51:53

An Introduction to Jordan Daniel Wood and Maximus the...

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2023/03/20

In this first in a series with Jordan Daniel Wood, Matt and Paul interview Jordan and discuss his journey from the Restoration Movement and a Bible College in Missouri to his groundbreaking work on Maximus the Confessor. Jordan, Matt, and Paul, share the overlap and development of their journey and discuss the present state of the academy and church, and Jordan introduces why Maximus is the theologian for this age of expanding knowledge. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider

26:18

Sermon: Imitation is Salvation

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2023/03/18

Paul Axton preaches - Imitation of Christ is the very substance of salvation. Apart from imitating his life there is no gospel, no tradition and no faith, yet this crucial motif supporting the language of discipleship, being in Christ, walking as Christ walked, is obscured by "faith alone" and theories of atonement focused on payment. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

29:22

Sermon: The Power of Life Versus the Power of Death

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2023/03/11

Paul Axton preaches - The power of coercion, the power of command and control, or power over other people is the power of death and violence that is universally recognized. Resurrection power redefines the meaning of power, linking it with the love and unity of being joined to Christ. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

47:56

Understanding Luther in His Semi-Nominalist Context

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2023/03/06

Jim, David, Austin, Drew, Brian, and Paul discuss Luther's approach to faith and reason as building upon a nominalist understanding which leads to his focus on forensics and his notion of a necessary and continuing dialectic between law and grace. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

24:42

Sermon: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

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2023/03/04

Paul Axton preaches - The blindness of sacrificial religion, of idolatry, of cultural hostility, creates a fabricated reality described as a process of externalization, objectivation, and internalization in which the origins of human culture create a necessary blindness or mystery which Christ exposes and displaces. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

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