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Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton

Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

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64:41

Personal Knowledge: The Debate Over Philosophy of...

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2025/12/01

This discussion of the teleological argument takes us into modern philosophy of science and the debate between Thomas Kuhn and Michael Polanyi. Paul Axton demonstrates the superiority of Polanyi's thought as reaching beyond Kuhn's stunted understanding. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

25:27

Sermon: Jesus Sign of Halting Sacrificial Violence in...

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2025/11/29

Paul Axton preaches: Jesus sign in the Temple is not simply pointing to the need to clean up the pricing system but to halt the economy of violent sacrifice and to deliver his sheep into an alternative nonviolent way of being human. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

85:11

Origen of Alexandria as the Answer to the Failure of...

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2025/11/24

In this discussion Paul Axton explains the failure of William Lane Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument and how it is that Origen of Alexandria provides the resolution in his view of time and eternity brought together in Christ.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

35:20

Sermon: The Semiotic Shift in the Sign of Jonah

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2025/11/22

Paul Axton preaches: Jesus says he will provide no sign other than that of Jonah to the Jews, which is a kind of non-sign in their value system. Jesus, like Jonah, presents a very different picture of God than Nahum and the Jews of Jonah and Jesus generation. This God cares for all and would go to the depths of the earth to retrieve everyone. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

106:04

Theology After Maximus, Hegel, and Wittgenstein

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2025/11/17

Continuing our discussion in Imaginative Apologetics, we discuss the view of the embodied understanding of Maximus and Hegel reflected in Wittgenstein in which the world is synthesized through embodiment and language. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

29:09

Sermon: Responding to Empire with Violence or as a...

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2025/11/15

Paul Axton preaches: Do we respond to empire with the resurrection faith of the nonviolent martyrs of Daniel and Maccabees or with the violence of the Mattathias and his friends in the Maccabean revolt. Jesus identity with the Son of Man of Daniel and his invoking the nonviolent response to the coming desolation and destruction portrayed in Maccabees provides the resolution to how to respond to evil empires. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a

77:11

Reflections on Anthony Bartlett's Course "Human...

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2025/11/10

Brad and Paul reflect on the course recently completed with Anthony Bartlett, and discuss how this picture of a semiotic shift surrounding Christ serves as an alternative reading of the Bible and reality. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

28:03

Sermon: What is a Jew and Who is God?

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2025/11/08

Paul Axton preaches: This sermon compares two understandings of Israel and God as presented in Nehemiah, Ezra, and Ruth, with Ruth the Moabite foreigner serving in the messianic line and as a kinsman redeemer through her faithful loving kindness, over and against the retributive picture of God and exclusive picture of Jews in Ezra and Nehemiah. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

81:32

Emmanuel Katongole On Teaching Nonviolence Through...

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2025/11/03

Notre Dame Professor Emmanuel Katongole, founder of Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, describes the theology and work of nonviolence in a world divided by violence and hatred. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

30:57

Sermon: The Biblical Contention About God Resolved in...

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2025/11/01

Paul Axton preaches: There are competing images of God in the Bible between a God of law and vengeance and the God of mercy and love. This contention is resolved in Christ in which true deity is found in the face of the forgiving human victim, and this highlights a theme traceable throughout the Hebrew Scriptures.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

65:26

Frederick Bauerschmidt: Preaching Nonviolence in the...

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2025/10/27

Frederick Bauerschmidt describes the practical work of teaching about the peace of Christ in the Catholic Church when violent Christian nationalism is the norm. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

29:58

Sermon: The Liberating Truth of Christ as an Eternal...

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2025/10/25

Paul Axton preaches: History is of eternal significance in that it pertains to God's identity, and the impact of this significance is in its liberation from an enslaving finite understanding into the liberating eternal reality of God found in Christ.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

58:14

Part 2: Jordan Wood Answers Hart Through Hegel

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2025/10/20

Jordan Daniel Wood continues the conversation with Matt and Paul and in part 2 describes Hegel's picture of an inadequate notion of the infinite, and he pictures Hart as falling into this failed understanding, which explains Hart's rejection of Jordan's Maximian-Hegelian understanding. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

29:43

Sermon: Theology of the Name - Jesus Christ as the...

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2025/10/18

Paul Axton preaches: appealing to the work of Sergius Bulgakov, Axton develops the significance of God's presence in the name given to Moses, and then Christ's assumption of this name and the opening to all the possibility of dwelling in the name, which describes the possibility of God pouring himself out in and through human language. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

65:48

Part 1: Jordan Wood Answers Hart Through Hegel

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2025/10/13

Jordan Daniel Wood, in conversation with Matt and Paul, explains the logic of Hegel as a natural development of Maximus understanding of personhood, which also serves to address the failure of David Bentley Hart to grasp the paradigm shift Jordan is picturing in light of Hegel. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

25:50

The Erasure of Cosmic and Personal Trauma in the Lamb...

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2025/10/11

In this talk at a gathering at a local restaurant (thus the country music in the background) Paul Axton presents the manner in which Christ defeats cosmic and personal trauma through the work of predestination.The Erasure of Cosmic and Personal Trauma in the Lamb Crucified from the Foundation of the World

57:00

Part 2: Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien on...

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2025/10/06

Roberto J. De Noval and Mark Roosien describe Bulgaokov's entry into speculative theology through Sophiology.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

26:54

Sermon: The Greek Logos Versus Jesus the Rejected Logos

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2025/10/04

Paul Axton preaches: John identifies Jesus as the the rejected Logos, which means he is not the Greek logos, the Jewish logos, the philosophical logos, or the religious logos, or the logic, language, reason, or word that grounds this world’s systems of human thought. Martin Heidegger is the prime example of recognizing the violence of the Greek logos, and then of presuming the Logos of Christ is a continuation of the same. René Girard brings out the absolute difference, developed most completely by

63:03

Part 1: Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien on...

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2025/09/29

Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien describe to Brad and Paul their encounter with Sergius Bulgakov and detail his understanding of universal salvation in its personal implications. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

27:24

Sermon: The Semiotics of Christ

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2025/09/27

Paul Axton preaches: Rene Girard pictures the body of the scapegoat as the original sign and signification, which accords with the depiction of religion in the Bible and in the religions of the world, and Christ directly reverses this sign and provides a new order of meaning.If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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