Forging Ploughshares

In Part 2 of their discussion, Megan, Jon, Jason, and Paul spell out ways of breaking down the barriers which have arisen with belief in conspiracy theories and identity politics, and focus on the attitudes and theological answers that might heal this present moment. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In Part I of this two part discussion, Megan, Jon, Jason, and Paul come to grips with why people are taken in by conspiracy theories, identity politics, and the theological failure and theological answers that might explain this present moment. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches: The recent attack on the Capitol and the religion that supports this nationalism has parallels to German Christian thought and the rise of Hitler. Paul is describing the defeat of this death dealing orientation. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In this PBI discussion, Jon joins Matt, Tim, and Paul in a continued conversation of how to get beyond modernist, Hegelian, dialectic thought and hermeneutics by returning to the early church's approach to Scripture. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In a PBI Course discussion, Tim, Matt, and Paul discuss a reading of Scripture that harmonizes Old Testament violence with the peace of Christ by focusing on a theological reading or a return to the early church hermeneutic. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In a PBI discussion, Tyler, Matt, and Paul, discuss a Christian form of knowing which is neither supersessionist nor modern foundationalism. Using the psychoanalytic poles of perversion and hysteria, they lay out a third way of knowing. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - Mary's Song and story opens human interiority and depth to world-changing consequences for human choice. Out of this realization evolves the modern sense of human interiority. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - Darkness is interwoven into the light of the Christmas story which heightens the meaning of its sublime beauty and purpose. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound  

Jon and Paul continue their discussion of the critical realism of Ben Meyer and Bernard Lonergan and discuss how subject/object duality is the specific form of subjectivity overcome in Christ and how this might conflict with or fit into an apocalyptic theological understanding. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Jon and Paul discuss the critical realism of Ben Meyer and Bernard Lonergan and how this might conflict with or fit into an apocalyptic theological understanding. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - The advent of the light breaking into the world is not dependent on human decision. It is a matter of what God is doing. To focus on the mediation of law, on the mediation of history, or to picture faith as a mediation, is to miss the act of God in Christ. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In this lecture, Paul Axton fully engages contemporary critiques of Sigmund Freud but suggests that in the second phase of his work and in the broad parameters of his project there is a potential theological understanding that needs to be utilized. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound  

Paul Axton pits the salvation historical approach of N. T. Wright or the Quest for the Historical Jesus against the apocalyptic revelation of being found "in Christ" as in Galatians. Transference out of slavery to freedom does not depend primarily on history or time but a shift in relationship. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bens...

Paul Axton describes a horseback journey to Adobe Walls on the old XIT Ranch which completes the story of his recent blog on the role of our own creation of memory as it plays out in our reading of the Gospels. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

American Christian nationalism conjoined with Christian Zionism strangely reduplicates the false teaching Paul identifies with the false gospel in Galatians. The only antidote to the pervasive spread of this false teaching is still the prescription Paul gives - the true gospel message. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - The gospel inaugurates a new world order with its own understanding and reason. The argument of Galatians is that the gospel is its own foundation and does not depend on law, rhetoric, reason, religion, or anything else, as it is the speech act of God in which the Christ event continues to unfold. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to suppo...

In this lecture Paul Axton distinguishes the manner in which true experience of God includes the created order, while the counterfeit experience (inclusive of forms of reason) excludes the world and thought itself. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Several passages in the Bible depict humans as reflecting the image of God, and by extension the entire creation bears the mark or image of the creator. The implication is that creations purpose is fulfilled in this image bearing which embraces the role of all of creation and our own story in the created order. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our w...

Jon and Paul discuss the history of biblical interpretation, critical approaches to Scripture, and the recent role of "cultural interpretation" as a means of arriving at a peaceable hermeneutic.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - There is a definitive description of the experiential reality of God in which one world system with its morality and apriori presumptions melts away. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Jason discusses the unique perspective and insight of the art of Corby Blem with the artist. View the accompanying video to go along with the discussion of this unique artist. https://youtu.be/D7DFTBoo_B0 Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - The Christian experience of the sublime is the simultaneous recognition of the overwhelming power unleashed into the world and the existential recognition that this power is unleashed in our own life in resurrection faith.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In this lecture Paul Axton examines the insights and problems with the three reigning understandings of religion. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In this lecture on the Holy Spirit, Paul Axton depicts the communion of God within the immanent Trinity as the ground of human communion.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton, in a course at the Carpenter's House, explains the failure of modern thought as it is connected to natural philosophy and proposes a morally and aesthetically engaged understanding in a narrative or imaginative understanding. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound