Forging Ploughshares

By Paul AxtonReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Forging Ploughshares episodes

August 05, 2019 A Comparison of Peter Berger and Mircea Eliade
In this podcast, Paul Axton compares the work of Mircea Eliade, the father of religious studies, and Peter Berger, the father of the notion of the social construction of reality, so as to arrive at a biblical understanding of religion.
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26 min
August 03, 2019 Sermon - Naming the Idol of Capitalism Through the Koinonia
Paul Axton preaches: The dividing wall of hostility between Jew and Gentile is broken down in Christ, and the removal of this barrier is, for Paul, the archetype of salvation. Money shared by Gentiles and accepted by Jews is the token of its accomplishment.
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29 min
July 29, 2019 Seeking Peace in Jerusalem with Aaron Woods
In this discussion Aaron Woods describes his work in Jerusalem teaching peace to Muslim children in a Christian school.
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45 min
July 27, 2019 Sermon - Abundant Life
Paul Axton preaches: The resurrection connects us to creation, it exposes the lie of death as an escape, it connects us to embodiment, it frees us from the valuation and ethical system of culture, it connects us to the deep love of others and the comfort of that love, it connects us to history and salvation history – we are part of this history.
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25 min
July 22, 2019 The Symptom of The Serial Killer and Every Son of Adam Addressed in Christ
Paul Axton concludes the series on various ways of engineering death in orientalism, occidentalism, and particular modes of enculturation the extreme form of sickness - the serial killer or the homicidal and genocidal tendency - by linking to a universal construct addressed in the death of Christ.
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40 min
July 20, 2019 Sermon - The Sting of Death
Paul Axton preaches: Is it the sting of sin is death or is it the sting of death is sin? Our tendency to misread this passage points to our tendency to miss what Christ saves us from.
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23 min
July 15, 2019 Understanding the Psychology and Culture of Death
Paul Axton illustrates the way in which death is engineered into the purpose of life and culture in this analysis of Takeo Doi.
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27 min
July 13, 2019 Sermon - The Sickness Unto Death Cured from Rightly Conceiving the Resurrection
Paul Axton preaches: The "sickness unto death” is despair at not having the self. Resurrection is the ultimate cure of this sickness – but rightly conceiving of the resurrection we can begin to conquer this despair now.
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27 min
July 08, 2019 Freud Goes to Japan
Paul Axton traces the manner in which Freud was taken up in Japan and the deep resonance between his theory and a Japanese sensibility.
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26 min
July 06, 2019 Sermon - The Apocalyptic Versus Contractual Christianity
Paul Axton preaches: The Corinthians, the evangelicals, the Roman Catholics, presume there is a naturally given recognition of good and evil in human wisdom. This "wisdom" is not the basis for Christianity but what Christ destroys.
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24 min