Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
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Christ and Culture: From Eliade and Berger to Hart and Bulgakov
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Jim, David, Tim, Brian and Paul discuss the possible relationships between Christ and culture, particularly in a secular age, and discuss the opposed positions of Mircea Eliade and Peter Berger and the resolution posed by David Bentley Hart and Peter Berger. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…
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Sermon: A Neo-Chalcedonian Understanding of the Unifying Work of Christ
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The Council of Chalcedon, as read by Maximus the Confessor, provides a solution to the issue of difference and unity, the problem of the one and the many, or the answer to how their can be unifying love in a universe seemingly built on dualism, difference, and multiplicity. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to s…
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Sermon: Resurrection as the Center of Christian Faith
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There are a variety of Christianities in which resurrection is excluded (theological liberalism), not needed (fundamentalism and penal substitution), or deemphasized (evangelicalism or pietism). The answer to the resurrectionless or semi-resurrectionless religions is the gospel, as the defeat of death, a cosmic salvation, a lived righteousness, a r…
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Michael Hardin on a Girardian Approach to the New Testament
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In the conclusion to the interview with Girard specialist Michael Hardin, Michael explains how a non-sacrificial hermeneutic, taken up in the Wesleyan Quadrilateral of Scripture, tradition, reason and experience, given a Christological center is the dynamic for reading the Bible and understanding God, not through morality but in character and ethic…
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Sermon: The Triumphal Entry and Jesus' Defeat of the Powers
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In John's account of the triumphal entry the resurrection of Lazarus triggers the events leading to Jesus' kingly reception, and then the turning of the crowd and his death as a scapegoat. Jesus exposes the history of violence and murder and explains his coming death as the defeat of Satan and the answer to mythic religious violence. Become a Patro…
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Michael Hardin Links the Work of René Girard to Maximus the Confessor
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In part one of this two part conversation, Michael Hardin, a leading expert on René Girard shows the direct parallels between Girard and Maximus on mimesis, desire, the object cause of desire, and the genealogy of violence, and how it is the very character of God, in kenotic love, delivers creation and the crown of creation from the futility of dea…
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In this new series on world cultures and religions, Tim, Jon, Brian, David, Simon, and Paul discuss the impact of the secular on religion, creating a distinct category "religion" separate from culture in which faith and practice become visibly distinct. The obscuring role of religion in Peter Berger and Rene Girard are examples. Become a Patron! If…
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Sermon: The Scandal of the Cross Exposing the Scandal of Satan
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The serpent points to a false desire, sin points to a false understanding of the law, and the idol poses a false god, which in each instance serves as an obstacle to what it promises, giving rise to the obstacle cause of desire. Christ exposes this scandalous lie, but Christ and the cross become a scandal or a stone of stumbling for those who conti…
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Reflections On Our Conversation With Jordan Wood and His Class for PBI
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Matt and Paul discuss key points raised by Jordan Wood and his upcoming class for PBI concerning Hegel, concerning the depth of theosis, and the meaning of being subject to fire in a universal understanding of Christianity. (Sign up for the course, The Theology of Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Wood. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings…
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Jordan Wood on the PBI Course: The Theology of Maximus The Confessor
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Paul and Matt discuss with Jordan the upcoming course on Maximus, discussing Christ as the foundation of a reason bringing together the antinomies (or limits of reason) pointed out by Kant, accounted for in the post-Kantians and incorporated into Bulgakov's sophiology, and Jordan suggests an alternative reading of Hegel in which he is an orthodox C…
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The Defeat of the Covenant with Death in Romans 9-11
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Jim, Jeff, Brian, and Paul discuss Paul's use of Isaiah's picture of the covenant with death, and universal deliverance and salvation, as an alternative reading to Romans 10-11, as opposed to justification theory. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…
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Romans 9-11: Double Predestination and Christian Zionism
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Jeff, Jim, Brian, and Paul discuss the role of the false teacher in Romans 9-11, Douglas Campbell's idea that works of the law was a problem which occurred only with the advent of Christianity, and the role of Christian Zionism and anti-Semitism in justification theory. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to suppo…
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The Reconstitution of the Subject From Romans 7 to Romans 8
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Jeff, Jim, David, Brian, and Paul compare and contrast the Human Subject of chapter 7 and the reconstituted Subject of Romans chapter 8. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.By Paul Axton
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Romans 7: The Split Within as the Sickness Unto Death
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Jim, Jeff, Brian, David, and Paul discuss Romans chapter 7 as providing a diagnosis of the human disease, in which the self is divided against itself. In Calvinism and justification theory this is presumed to be the normal Christian life, but this is Paul's picture of the human disease. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider …
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Does Baptism Make an Ontological Difference?
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In the conclusion to our discussion of Romans 6, Matt, Jim, Brian, David and Paul discuss the question as to how to describe the difference in the Christian life. God's universal plan of salvation and the reality of evil create the question whether there is an ontological distinction with those in Christ. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcas…
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The Dialectic of the Law Displaced in Being Joined to the Body of Christ
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Jim, David, Brian, Matthew, Jonathan, Matt, and Paul discuss how the law functions as a deep grammar giving rise to the antinomies of a dialectic which functions as an end in itself. Romans 6 describes baptism as the cure to this dialectical antagonism by being joined to the body of Christ in baptism. Here the sign no longer floats free of the sign…
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Cosmic Conversion From the Elementary Principles of the Law Through Mind Transformation
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Jeff, Matt, Brian, Jon, David, and Paul discuss Louis Martyn's depiction of the Galatian heresy as captivity to the elementary principles as this can be equated with Douglas Campbell's picture of the false teacher, and how conversion pertains to mind transformation through deliverance from this cosmos through Christ as fundamental reason. Become a …
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Modernity and secularism in capitalism are made of the same stuff as Aaron's Golden Calf, captured in Paul's picture of the law as an idolatrous temptation, after Christ. The principalities and powers continue to reify that which has no substance and the Gospel exposes this idolatrous power. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please cons…
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The Reign of Death, Not Law, as the Primary Human Problem
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Matthew, Brian, Jon, Matt, Jeff, and Paul discuss how the false teacher's understanding has melded with the Augustinian misreading of Romans 5 to make law and sin the primary human problem, while in Paul's Gospel, the orientation to death is the cause of sin and the primary human problem. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please conside…
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Sermon: Exposing the Secular as the Law of Sin and Death
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Treating the secular as a unique epoch in history runs the danger of reifying this reality as if it is a true description, when it is on a continuum with the age-old deception of the law of sin and death that has a grip on the human heart. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…
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Reification of the Law: The Teaching of the False Teacher as the Definition of Sin
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Jim, Jeff, Brian, Matt, and Paul conclude their conversation about the false teacher, who embodies the human problem of reifying law and language, which is Paul's definition of sin and the psychoanalytic diagnosis of the human predicament. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…
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Sermon: Christ as Synthesis of the Fractured Image
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Antinomies, dualisms, alienation, and divide, are reflected in every realm of human thought from the psychological, the philosophical, gender relations, and even religion. Male/female, Plato/Aristotle, Spirit/flesh, sociology of religion/religious studies all represent a partial truth grounded in the lie of division and antagonism. Jesus Christ is …
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Two Forms of Christianity Based on Two Alternative Meanings of Faith
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Jon, Matt, Brian, Jim, Jeff, David and Paul compare and contrast two meaning systems and two alternative approaches to reality connected to two alternative understandings of justification by faith. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.By Paul Axton
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Contrasting Paul's Gospel with that of the False Teacher in Romans 1:18-32
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Jim, Brian, Matt, and Paul contrast the teaching of Romans 1:18-32 with Paul's Gospel in the rest of Romans and in in Ephesians and Colossians, suggesting this may be the gospel (including its anthropology and theology) from hell, which Paul is refuting. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…
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Sorting Out the Unconditional and Conditional Gospel with Douglas Campbell
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Jim, Jeff, Matt, Brian, and Paul discuss the opening three chapters of Romans as it contrasts to Romans 5-8, and as treated in Douglas Campbell, so as to delineate Paul's unconditional Gospel from justification theory's fusion of the false Teacher with Paul, resulting in the conditional Gospel. (Register now for the class in World Religions and Cul…
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