Forging Ploughshares

By Paul AxtonReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Forging Ploughshares episodes

February 17, 2024 Sermon: Exposing the Idol of Modernity
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.
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27 min
February 12, 2024 The Reign of Death, Not Law, as the Primary Human Problem
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.
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46 min
February 10, 2024 Sermon: Exposing the Secular as the Law of Sin and Death
Treating the secular as a unique epoch in history runs the danger of reifying this reality as if it is a true description, when it is on a continuum with the age-old deception of the law of sin and death that has a grip on the human heart.
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28 min
February 05, 2024 Reification of the Law: The Teaching of the False Teacher as the Definition of Sin
Jim, Jeff, Brian, Matt, and Paul conclude their conversation about the false teacher, who embodies the human problem of reifying law and language, which is Paul's definition of sin and the psychoanalytic diagnosis of the human predicament.
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40 min
February 03, 2024 Sermon: Christ as Synthesis of the Fractured Image
Antinomies, dualisms, alienation, and divide, are reflected in every realm of human thought from the psychological, the philosophical, gender relations, and even religion. Male/female, Plato/Aristotle, Spirit/flesh, sociology of religion/religious studies all represent a partial truth grounded in the lie of division and antagonism. Jesus Christ is the singular synthesis, bringing together that which cannot synthesize itself, thus he is healing, fulfilling and completing the fractured human image.
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22 min
January 29, 2024 Two Forms of Christianity Based on Two Alternative Meanings of Faith
Jon, Matt, Brian, Jim, Jeff, David and Paul compare and contrast two meaning systems and two alternative approaches to reality connected to two alternative understandings of justification by faith.
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52 min
January 27, 2024 Contrasting Paul's Gospel with that of the False Teacher in Romans 1:18-32
Jim, Brian, Matt, and Paul contrast the teaching of Romans 1:18-32 with Paul's Gospel in the rest of Romans and in in Ephesians and Colossians, suggesting this may be the gospel (including its anthropology and theology) from hell, which Paul is refuting.
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58 min
January 22, 2024 Sorting Out the Unconditional and Conditional Gospel with Douglas Campbell
Jim, Jeff, Matt, Brian, and Paul discuss the opening three chapters of Romans as it contrasts to Romans 5-8, and as treated in Douglas Campbell, so as to delineate Paul's unconditional Gospel from justification theory's fusion of the false Teacher with Paul, resulting in the conditional Gospel.
(Register now for the class in World Religions and Cultures: Go to https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings to register.)
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1 hr 3 min
January 20, 2024 Introducing World Religions and Cultures
Jon, Matt, and Paul discuss the outline and scope of the upcoming course on World Religions and Cultures, dealing with both a theology of religions and the interactions of particular religions with culture, including also the issue of Orientalism and reverse Orientalism, Girard's theory of myth and scapegoating, nationalism, and a close look at the Bhagavad Gita.
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1 hr 29 min
January 15, 2024 Campbell’s Reading of Romans and Psychoanalytic Theory
Brian, Jim, Matt, Jeff, and Paul discuss how Campbell's theory of the Teacher accords with the psychoanalytic understanding of sin as a lie concerning the law, with all-pervasive consequences.
(Register now for the class in World Religions and Cultures: Go to https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings to register.)
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1 hr 4 min