Forging Ploughshares
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Ep 331Mission in Japan
Jonathan Totty interviews Paul Axton on his experience in Japan. Paul describes why and how he ended up doing an analysis of psychoanalytic readings of Paul as a result of his experience. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 330Honor/Shame in Hebrews - Hebrews 13
As we come to the conclusion of Hebrews in chapter 13 we examine the economy the book is describing in terms of Honor and Shame. Not to say this is some historical artifact but is a universal truth about the way shame and honor are addressed in salvation. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 329Hebrews 10 - Understanding the Work of Christ Through Two Pictures of the Temple
The temple as microcosmos an mirror of heaven emphasizes the immanence and transcendence of God respectively. Christ resolves this tension as true temple. At the same time the work of Christ and the the nature of God are apprehended against this background. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 328Hebrews 12 - Distinguishing Evil and Discipline
Persecution, hostility toward God, and suffering are a futility and evil, but even these endured rightly can be transformed into a discipline. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 327Jesus As True Temple and True Sacrifice Defeats Death - He Does Not Die for God!
This sermon pictures the various rituals surrounding the temple as focused on cleansing from death. The ultimate cleansing is from the rebellion of sin and death - this is the meaning of the atoning death of Christ. This stands in direct contradiction to penal substitution. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 326Who is the Better Follower of Christ Gandhi or Calvin?
Thomas Evans, Jonathan Totty, Matt Welch, & Paul Axton discuss the essence of Christianity. Did Gandhi have it better than Calvin? In this wide-ranging discussion, we touch upon the work of Tolstoy, King, Girard, and others. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 325Jesus' Life Saves: Not His Death Alone - Hebrews 9
An explanation of Hebrews 9, often used to support penal substitution. Paul Axton argues that it is at the ascension of Jesus, not His death, that atonement is completely worked out. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 324Apocalypse Now - Hebrews 12
Paul Axton continues his study in Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 323Hebrews 8 - Heaven on Earth
The Jewish shadow and form resolved through the temple. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 322Gender Issues - Egalitarianism/Complimentarianism and Beyond
Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss gender. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 321Hebrews 11:20ff - The Vision of Radical Faith
Paul Axton continues his study in Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 320Hebrews 7 - An Indestructible High Priest
Resurrection is at the center of salvation. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 319An Alternative Christian Education: Ploughshares Bible Institute
Jason Rodenbeck and Paul Axton discuss an alternative to traditional seminary and Bible college. What is the difference of an education derived from the principle of peace? We are happy to announce Ploughshares Bible Institute is now accepting applications! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 318Hebrews 11:7 - Faith as the Resolution to Sin
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
Ep 317Hebrews 6:9 - What Foundation and What Enlightenment
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
Ep 316Hebrews 11:1-6 - Is Faith Primarily Subjective or Objective?
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
Ep 315Modernity and the Secular - Toward a Resolution (Part 4)
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
Ep 314Hebrews 6 - Theosis
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
Ep 313Hebrews 10:32 - Salvation is a Practice
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
Ep 312How Was Jesus Delivered from Death - Hebrews 5:7
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
Ep 311Resurrection as Perfection - Hebrews 5
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
Ep 310Atonement and Forgiveness - Hebrews 10:19ff
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
Ep 309The Two Goat Theology of Hebrews 9-10
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
Ep 308Temple Theology as an Understanding of the Nature of God - Hebrews 10
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
Ep 307Modernity and the Secular - The Problem of Evil (Part 3)
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
Ep 306Finding Rest in Faithfulness - Hebrews 4:1-11
Paul preaches on the Sabbath rest. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 305Cleansing from Death - Hebrews 9:23
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
Ep 304Modernity and the Secular - Nihilism of Modernity, Milbank and Taylor (Part 2)
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
Ep 303Messianic Time - Hebrews 3
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
Ep 302Hebrews 3:1-13 - Overcoming Alienation through an Indestructible Human Life
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
Ep 301Hebrews 9:11 - The Alternative to Penal Substitution
Penal substitution is often derived - Paul offers an alternative reading. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 300Re-imagining the World - Hebrews 2:1-4
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
Ep 299Introducing Modernity and the Secular - A Theological Narrative (Part 1)
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 the shift which occurs between the premodern and the modern. There is an introductory blog post for this series. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 298Hebrews 9:1-10 - The Meaning of the Earthly Tent
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
Ep 297Escape from the Covenant with Death - Hebrews 2
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
Ep 296The Point of What we are Saying - Hebrews 8
Paul continues his study in Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 295Hebrews 1:1-3 - All Things Being Brought into Subjection
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
Ep 148Conversation with Jonathan Totty about Eastern Orthodox Theology
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
Ep 149A Priest in the Order of Melchizedek
The implication of Christ’s Priesthood in Hebrews 7 will be worked out such that we are also priests. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 150A Sure Promise
Paul continues his study in Hebrews 6:9. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 151Hebrews 6:1-8 – Press On
Paul continues his study in Hebrews. Be forewarned: Toddlers are toddling and vocalizing their opinion throughout the discussion! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 152Introduction to Hebrews (Sermon)
Paul begins a sermon series on Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 153Righteousness of God
Jonathan Totty preaches on the righteousness of God. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 154Keep Yourselves From Idols
Paul concludes his sermon series on I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 155Hebrews 5:7 – Resurrection As The Answer To The Prayer of Jesus
The answer to the question of what would constitute the answer to Jesus prayer in 5:7 is resurrection, and resurrection faith is taken to be the kind of faith we have to combat sin. Sin is equated with the faithlessness of not trusting God for life – resurrection life. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 156Interview with Jonathan Totty about Gregory Palamas
Gregory Palamas was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later the archbishop of Thessaloniki, known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. Paul and Jonathan discuss the significance of Palamas as a point of departure from the Latin tradition. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 157John 5 – That You May Know That You Have Eternal Life!
Paul continues his sermon series on I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 158Hebrews 5:1-10 – A Perfect High Priest
Paul continues his study in Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 159Breaking Bread Together
Jonathan Totty preaches a sermon on breaking bread together. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 160I John 5:5-8 – Blood and Water
Blood-humanity and water-deity are forever fused in and through the person and work of Christ. A simple idea that requires a revised understanding of blood as it is used in the OT and as it is understood in the NT. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound