Forging Ploughshares Podcast
1) Anselm's Reification of Language as the Human Problem
Paul, Karl, Andy, and Jim discuss the role of language in Anselm and its development through Descartes into foundationalism, and pose the idea of personalism, found in Christ, as the resolution to thi...Show More
2) Sermon: The Living Letter Versus the Letter that Kills
Paul Axton preaches: Corinthians says, "you are a letter of Christ" and this living letter resolves the problem of the letter or language that is deadly. The resolution between the difference between ...Show More
3) The Constantinian Shift to "Common Sense"
In this continued discussion of how the Constantinian shift impacted Christianity, Nate, Karl, Jim, Andrew and Paul, discuss the loss of non-violence, the turn from Christian ethics and the Sermon on ...Show More
4) Sermon: The Transformed Mind as an Alternative Subjectivity
Paul Axton preaches, describing the transformed mind, or knowing God as the suspension of the common Jewish and Enlightenment notion of God and, recognized by Hegel. Paul's suspension of the law and H...Show More
5) How Christianity Became a Religion
In this discussion of how it is that Christianity became a religion, much like other religions, Paul, Nat, Jim, Andrew and Karl, discuss the impact of the Constantinian shift, the rise of Divine Satis...Show More
6) Sermon: Eucharist as the Completion of Emmanuel
Paul Axton preaches: The theme of Mathew captured in Immanuel, is completed in the Lord's Supper, in which the efficacious presence of God is made to bear on the lives of believers in what Hegel calls...Show More
7) Emmanuel: The Presence of God as the Resolution to the Human Predicament
Paul Axton preaches: In this Christmas Sermon the role of presence ("God with us") and absence is traced in Scripture as the primary theme fulfilled in Christ; a theme also recognized in postmodern ph...Show More
8) An Expanded View of Recapitulation
In this continuation of discussions of sin and salvation, Paul Axton takes up and expands upon the early church understanding of recapitulation as an all-embracing understanding of atonement that acco...Show More
9) The Rule of Faith and Deliverance from the Law of Sin and Death
In a continuation of the discussion of the nature of sin and salvation and hermeneutics, the discussion turns to how the rule of faith, or biblical hermeneutics centered on the person of Christ, bring...Show More
10) Sin and Salvation: The Gospel as the Coherence of Scripture
In this new series on sin and salvation, Paul Axton introduces a series on theories of atonement, beginning with Christ as the "rule of faith" interpreting Scripture and exegeting God. The issues of p...Show More