Forging Ploughshares

By Paul AxtonReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Forging Ploughshares episodes

March 12, 2022 Sermon: Part 2 - Death and Not Sin is the Primary Human Problem
Paul Axton Preaches - Building on the understanding that death is the predicament in which sin arises; this is illustrated through Thomas Hobbes, the Book of Wisdom, and James, explaining why defeat of fear of death enables love.
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30 min
March 07, 2022 History From Below
Jino (in India), Isaiah (in Korea), Matt, David, and Paul discuss the failure of the Constantinian form of Christianity and the necessity to recognize that with James Cone, the untouchables of India and Japan, and the poor in Korea, authentic Christian experience will tend to be erased by those in power.
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59 min
March 05, 2022 Sermon: Death, Not Sin, Is the Primary Human Problem
Paul Axton Preaches - Due, in part, to Augustine's misreading of Romans 5:12, Western theology has confused cause and effect between sin and death, and in the process lose how it is that sin is an orientation to death, and the defeat of death is a defeat of sin. The New Testament and the earliest gospel preached by the apostolic fathers, such as Ignatius of Antioch, see death as the cause of sin.
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32 min
February 28, 2022 Part 2: Beyond David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
Matt, Jon, and Paul conclude their discussion on Hart's book, Tradition and Apocalypse, by examining the gap between the New Testament and the reality of the church in its Episcopal, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant forms.
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29 min
February 26, 2022 Beyond David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
Matt, Jon and Paul return to key questions raised by Hart's book, Tradition and Apocalypse, and suggest that what is needed is an alternative hermeneutic in reading Scripture and history which suspends the violence and reads from beneath the oppression of the powers.
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52 min
February 21, 2022 Part 2: A Discussion About David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
Matt, Jon, and Paul continue to discuss Hart's recent book and turn the critique on their own traditions and discuss what it means to make progress in theology.
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1 hr 7 min
February 19, 2022 A Discussion About David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss Hart's recent book detailing an understanding of salvation which in its unfolding fully admits the contradictions of history and doctrine while looking to a future coherence in the eschaton.
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56 min
February 14, 2022 Sermon: The Giving of Christ that Defeats the Giving Up That Killed Him
Paul Axton Preaches - The New Testament describes a form of realism a connecting with ultimate reality, in which words and actions connect in the definitive giving (δίδωμι) of Christ which overcomes and defeats the “handing over” (παραδίδωμι) which delivered him to the cross.
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35 min
February 12, 2022 The Secular Informs the Sacred
In this final discussion of the Holy Spirit Rob, Allan, and Paul, discuss the sense in which Freud's notion that belief in God is about sex, Marx's notion that religion is about economics, and Schmitt's view that the state in the equivalent of the Church, need to be flipped.
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34 min
February 07, 2022 Agape and Eros and the Holy Spirit
Rather than a contrast between Agape and Eros, Allan, Justin, Matt, David and Paul, discuss their interconnection and the key role of love as the end point of the work of the Holy Spirit.
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1 hr 10 min