Forging Ploughshares

By Paul AxtonReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Forging Ploughshares episodes

February 29, 2020 Sermon: Jesus is the Cosmic Christ
Paul Axton Preaches - For Paul, Christ is Jesus – the reality of the one is inseparable from the other. It is not that Jesus is one phase of the making of the Christ. The truth of God, the truth of the world is found in the incarnation.
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26 min
February 24, 2020 Establishing a Safe Place with Dylan Hayes
Dylan and Kylie, two of our Forging Ploughshares community, are starting a special home here in Moberly. Dylan describes their journey and the nature of their vision.

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30 min
February 22, 2020 Sermon: The Cosmic Christ
Paul Axton preaches - Certainly, salvation is the overcoming of sin but the fullness of redemption is the completion of creation’s purpose. Paul has moved our understanding of God’s plan beyond the earth and the human race to its cosmic impact as part of the outworking of the love (the very essence) of God. The whole point of who God is and what God is doing in creation is summed up in the incarnate Christ (1:10).

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30 min
February 17, 2020 Part II: The Experiential Reality of the Modern and its Impact on Theology
In the conclusion to a discussion on modern experiential reality Jon, Matt, and Paul, describe the peculiar role of Eastern Orthodoxy in contrast to Protestantism and Roman Catholic thought impacted by nominalism and the rise of the peculiarities of the secular in the West.

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44 min
February 15, 2020 Sermon: Experience of God
Ephesians describes a different experiential reality. To get at this understanding we need to redo the deep grammar from which our experience flows. This will include a reworking of the category of eternity and our relationship to that category.

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27 min
February 10, 2020 Part I: The Experiential Reality of the Modern and its Impact on Theology
In this introduction to describing this place we have come to in modernity Jon, Matt, and Paul discuss the role of nominalism in Protestantism and Roman Catholic thought and the rise of the secular in modernity.

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40 min
February 08, 2020 Sermon - Ephesians as a Development of the Theology of Heaven Come to Earth
The heart of the New Testament is a theology of new creation through resurrection: God affirms the goodness of the created order, and affirms he is makeing itanew, starting with the physical body of Jesus Himself.

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24 min
February 01, 2020 Defeating the Death Dealing Desire of Religion
In this lecture Paul Axton describes the formation of desire from a biblical and Lacanian perspective and links this to idolatrous religion and human angst, both of which are defeated in putting on the image of Christ. This piece is part of the larger picture of religion being put together in the upcoming class for which you can register here at the bottom of the page - https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/lm/offerings
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35 min
January 25, 2020 A Discussion About the Upcoming Module on Culture and Religion
In this conversation Jason and Paul touch upon the issues of religious sacrifice, nationalism, orientalism, and the primary role that violence and peace play in the confrontation between the kingdom of Christ and the principalities and powers. The upcoming course World Culture and Religion will take up these issues in depth.

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48 min
January 18, 2020 Part 2 - Discussion of the Two Popes Leads to an Attempt to Describe the Present Political Moment
Jason, Vangie, and Paul discuss how Christian's are to perceive this present political moment in which a vast number of Christians have aligned themselves with a particular political party.
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22 min