Paul Axton

Forging Ploughshares

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Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

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Paul Axton

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Hebrews 11:7 - Faith as the Resolution to Sin 13.11.2017 36:16

Faith breaks open a closed cosmos and a closed economy to receive God's gifts. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hebrews 6:9 - What Foundation and What Enlightenment 11.11.2017 22:56

A sure Promise - Jesus has gone behind the veil. The Transcendent and immanent nature of truth as we have it in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hebrews 11:1-6 - Is Faith Primarily Subjective or Objective? 06.11.2017 54:09

Is faith an interior state or a participation in a transcendent essence. How we understand the "essence" of faith is determinative of the shape of our Christianity. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Modernity and the Secular - Toward a Resolution (Part 4) 04.11.2017 56:27

Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss the potential resolution to the modernist divide between faith and reason to be found in Radical Orthodoxy, Postliberalism, Barthianism, and the the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hebrews 6 - Theosis 30.10.2017 24:53

Chapter 6 of Hebrews can be compared to II Peter in its description of "partaking" in deity. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hebrews 10:32 - Salvation is a Practice 28.10.2017 38:17

Salvation is an embodied, practical salvation which is inclusive of practicing virtue. The way to virtue is by practice. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

How Was Jesus Delivered from Death - Hebrews 5:7 23.10.2017 25:12

The counter to liberalism and fundamentalism is a proper appreciation of bodily resurrection and ascension. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Resurrection as Perfection - Hebrews 5 16.10.2017 32:14

The resurrection and ascension is the point of perfection which is then what is mediated to us. This accords more with theosis than Western notions of atonement. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Atonement and Forgiveness - Hebrews 10:19ff 14.10.2017 41:53

Frank Dugan makes a distinction between various metaphors and the telos of God's creative and restorative work, in particular forgiveness as an accounting metaphor. Paul Axton then leads the study on Hebrews 10:19ff. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

The Two Goat Theology of Hebrews 9-10 09.10.2017 35:00

The two goats - YHWH and Azazel - of Yom Kippur are both referenced in 9:28. Paul explains how this shapes Heb 9-10. Keeping the goats straight will bring clarity to the meaning of how Christ saves. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Temple Theology as an Understanding of the Nature of God - Hebrews 10 07.10.2017 49:09

The temple as microcosmos and mirror of heaven stand in tension, but the resolution of this tension is to be found in a properly worked-out Christology. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Modernity and the Secular - The Problem of Evil (Part 3) 04.10.2017 56:38

Jonathan Totty and Paul Axton discuss the problem of evil as it relates to modernity and the secular. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Finding Rest in Faithfulness - Hebrews 4:1-11 02.10.2017 29:28

Paul preaches on the Sabbath rest. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Cleansing from Death - Hebrews 9:23 27.09.2017 55:37

An explanation of the pollution of death surrounding the temple and its rites. With this in mind it would be impossible to think of God needing or requiring the death of Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Modernity and the Secular - Nihilism of Modernity, Milbank and Taylor (Part 2) 25.09.2017 55:36

Jonathan Totty and Paul Axton discuss the secular nature of belief in modern forms of faith. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Messianic Time - Hebrews 3 23.09.2017 28:05

Paul preaches on the concept of Sabbath, Today, Now, or of Messianic time in Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hebrews 3:1-13 - Overcoming Alienation through an Indestructible Human Life 20.09.2017 33:41

Christ's bodily ascension overcomes dualism. Dualism is defined as the universal structure of sinful alienation - it is a false dualism. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hebrews 9:11 - The Alternative to Penal Substitution 18.09.2017 50:30

Penal substitution is often derived - Paul offers an alternative reading. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Re-imagining the World - Hebrews 2:1-4 16.09.2017 24:26

Paul preaches on entering in to a different concept of time - Messianic time. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Introducing Modernity and the Secular - A Theological Narrative (Part 1) 13.09.2017 55:22

Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss the The Genealogy of Modern Theology. Under this title we cover several topics: The Medieval Renaissance: Aquinas and the Classical Synthesis The Late Middle Ages: Nominalism and Voluntarism, The Renaissance and the Reformation, The Enlightenment and Pietism, German Idealism, The notion of the secular. The goal in this first podcast is to get a clear image of...

Hebrews 9:1-10 - The Meaning of the Earthly Tent 11.09.2017 36:17

The body of Christ is the cosmic temple toward which the earthly tent pointed. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Escape from the Covenant with Death - Hebrews 2 09.09.2017 29:10

Paul lays out an alternative understanding of sin and salvation while exploring Hebrews 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

The Point of What we are Saying - Hebrews 8 06.09.2017 45:03

Paul continues his study in Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hebrews 1:1-3 - All Things Being Brought into Subjection 04.09.2017 28:40

Using John Howard Yoder this sermon demonstrates five instances of how Jesus interacts with existing world-views and cosmologies. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Conversation with Jonathan Totty about Eastern Orthodox Theology 30.08.2017 50:27

Paul and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Eastern Orthodox Theology. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound