Forging Ploughshares

By Paul AxtonReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Forging Ploughshares episodes

July 03, 2021 Sermon: Reading Paul with Nietzsche
Paul Axton Preaches - Friedrich Nietzsche misreads Paul in the standard Lutheran contractual theological manner as suffering from guilt and resentment against God and the law. His pronouncement of the death of God is a prophetic pointer to the demise of western philosophical foundations which a correct, apocalyptic, reading of Paul and Christianity already address.
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28 min
June 28, 2021 Romans 11: Their Rejection is the Reconciliation of the World
Paul Axton lectures on Romans 11 detailing the conclusion of how "God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all."
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11 min
June 26, 2021 Sermon: Reading the Bible Figuratively
Paul Axton Preaches - Hebrews is a case in point of how a figurative reading of Scripture and history is existentially now and not yet. It is not Nietzsche's Platonic - not yet Christianity nor is it Hegel's immanent - now Christianity, thus it counters both fascism and Marxism.
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27 min
June 21, 2021 Romans 10: A Covenant Producing Righteousness
Paul Axton lectures on Romans 10 which depicts the universal predicament of turning to the sign of the law rather than the transformative relationship of covenant which resolves this problem.
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18 min
June 19, 2021 Sermon: The Primacy of Hope in Resolving the Futility of Sin
Paul Axton Preaches - Romans 8 counters the suffering and agonistic desire described in chapter 7 with a participation in the Trinity grounded in hope.
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32 min
June 14, 2021 The Nature and Means of Universal Salvation
Matt, Tim, Alan, Trenton and Paul compare and contrast various approaches to Romans 9-11, represented in part by David Bentley Hart and N. T. Wright, discussing the various facets of the possibility of universal salvation.
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57 min
June 12, 2021 Sermon: United In Christ: The Resolution to Evil
Paul Axton Preaches - Sin is the alienating power linked to the orientation to death in Romans 5 and 7 and this is what Christ defeats and which, as Romans 6 describes, Christians realize by being joined to Him.
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32 min
June 07, 2021 Romans 9: Vessels of Wrath and Mercy
Paul Axton argues that in chapter 9 of Romans Paul is not talking about a double predestination of the Calvinist type. He is speaking of the way in which Israel’s vocation to be the people of the creator God, including specifically its calling to be the “vessels of wrath,” was the focal point of the plan to save the world.
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8 min
June 05, 2021 Sermon: Not Penal Substitution but Eternal Love
Paul Axton Preaches - The defining doctrine of evangelicalism, Calvin's penal substitution, subverts the biblical meaning of the work of Christ, trading a God of love for a wrathful pagan-like deity.
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37 min
May 31, 2021 The Mystery of Universal Salvation
Matt, Alan, Tim and Paul, in this initial discussion on Ro 9-11 discuss the mystery of Christ and the approach of David Bentley Hart and N.T, Wright to these chapters.
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44 min