Forging Ploughshares

By Paul AxtonReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Forging Ploughshares episodes

March 04, 2019 Film Review - Vice (Part 2 of 2)
Jason Rodenbeck and Paul Axton conclude their discussion of the 2018 film Vice and share their reflections on a the peaceable Kingdom's response to the pursuit of political power and our contemporary political situation.
Part 2 of 2.
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48 min
March 02, 2019 Sermon - Recovering Christian Anarchism in Corinth
Paul Axton preaches: The organizing principle of this world is idolatrous in that it would sacrifice people for principle, the few (the poor and weak) for the many (the strong). Paul pictures this as collusion with demons and call for anarchism - love against the organizing power of this world.
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31 min
February 25, 2019 Film Review - Vice (Part 1 of 2)
Jason Rodenbeck and Paul Axton discuss the 2018 film Vice and share their reflections on a the peaceable Kingdom's response to the pursuit of political power and our contemporary political situation.
Part 1 of 2.
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47 min
February 18, 2019 Wittgenstein and Augustine - Approaching Post-Liberal Theology (Part 2 of 2)
Hayden Hagerman and Paul Axton continue to lay out the significance of Wittgenstein and show how this correlates with part of an Augustinian understanding which correlates with Karl Barth and serves as the basis for Post-Liberalism.
Part 2 of 2.
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33 min
February 16, 2019 Sermon - Authoritarianism versus Apostolic Authority
Paul Axton preaches on I Corinthians 9, where the apostle Paul's ideal of authority and leadership is contrasted with that of the Corinthians and contemporary notions of leadership.
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30 min
February 11, 2019 Wittgenstein and Augustine - An alternative approach to Theology (Part 1 of 2)
Hayden Hagerman and Paul Axton discuss Wittgenstein's and Augustine's understanding of language and how this can result in two different theological understandings.
Part 1 of 2.
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42 min
February 09, 2019 Anselm's Atonement Theory - A Violent Zero Sum Game
Paul Axton concludes his series on Anselm: Anselm works out the necessity of the death of Christ as part of the logic, already developed in his other arguments, of a pure reason. The necessity of the death of Christ is a violent logical necessity in his closed system of the human mind.
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37 min
February 04, 2019 Sermon - Knowing God Through Christ – or Through Ourselves – Knowing as you Ought
Paul Axton Preaches: Paul is teaching the Corinthians of an alternative knowing - a self-awareness that must include a sensitivity to persons. It is not simply a matter of knowing a set of facts – idols are nothing and God is something. It is a matter of knowing persons – some are weak some are strong – and the principle found in Christ is that of a loving personal knowledge.
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27 min
February 02, 2019 Anselm - The Origins of Modern Thought and Theological Failure
Paul Axton connects Anselm to Hegel and Heidegger and to Lacanian psychoanalysis in tracing the turn to a reified language as a form of salvation.
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27 min
January 28, 2019 Anselm's Cosmological Argument - The Key to his Thought
Paul Axton explains how Anselm reasons from ordinary differences to an absolute difference so as to attain to the thought of God and cross the ontological divide which separates the divine and human. To cross this divide using reason is an ultimate act of the will which will require the Cross. All of this depends upon an essentializing or absolutizing of human interiority.
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19 min