Forging Ploughshares

Matt, Jon and Paul return to key questions raised by Hart's book, Tradition and Apocalypse, and suggest that what is needed is an alternative hermeneutic in reading Scripture and history which suspends the violence and reads from beneath the oppression of the powers.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Matt, Jon, and Paul continue to discuss Hart's recent book and turn the critique on their own traditions and discuss what it means to make progress in theology.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss Hart's recent book detailing an understanding of salvation which in its unfolding fully admits the contradictions of history and doctrine while looking to a future coherence in the eschaton.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton Preaches - The New Testament describes a form of realism a connecting with ultimate reality, in which words and actions connect in the definitive giving (δίδωμι) of Christ which overcomes and defeats the “handing over” (παραδίδωμι) which delivered him to the cross. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this final discussion of the Holy Spirit Rob, Allan, and Paul, discuss the sense in which Freud's notion that belief in God is about sex, Marx's notion that religion is about economics, and Schmitt's view that the state in the equivalent of the Church, need to be flipped.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Rather than a contrast between Agape and Eros, Allan, Justin, Matt, David and Paul, discuss their interconnection and the key role of love as the end point of the work of the Holy Spirit. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.  

Rob and Paul discuss the harm that the masculine image of God and accompanying patriarchy continues to exercise among the young. Rob, describes the situation in Sydney, the center of the controversy of the heresy of subordinationism (in the Trinity) in order to support subordination of women. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton preaches - Christ breaks down the dividing wall of hostility, providing a peaceful hermeneutic in which God, the Bible, and Church are understood as nonviolent. The law is the wall of hostility put in place, not by God but by human violence and hostility which Christ has defeated.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Apply for our upcoming class, Sin and Salvation, by following the link Enroll

In this PBI discussion Allan, Matt, Justin, David, and Paul review how masculine and feminine conceptions impact Trinitarian analogies and how Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine converge in their depiction of the Trinity in connection to Romans 5 and 8. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Apply for our upcoming class, Sin and Salvation, by following the link Enroll

Paul Axton Preaches - In the Western conception, as handed down through Augustine, Anselm, Luther, and Calvin, sin and salvation function as an extension of the law, making redemption a legal fiction. In the Bible, sin is a disease, a lie, enslavement, or corruption, all involved in an orientation to death, and all solved in a real world fashion through Christ's defeat of this orientation.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Apply for our upcoming class, Sin and Salvation, by following the link Enroll

Allan, Matt, David, Justin, and Paul discuss the history of iconography and Christian art and the implications of its depiction of the Trinity and the tendency to diminish the role of the Spirit, culminating in the Spirit's displacement by depictions of Mary. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Apply for our upcoming class, Sin and Salvation, by following the link https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/student-applications/new

In this PBI Discussion Rob, Dan and Paul take up the issue of suffering and extend the discussion to a conclusion as to practical ways as to how to view and handle suffering - repudiating the notion that God needs suffering. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Apply for our upcoming class, Sin and Salvation, by following the link https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/student-applications/new

In this PBI discussion Allan, David, Justin, Dan, Matt, and Paul discuss types of suffering as perceived in East and West and as distinguished in Romans 7 & 8. In a critique of Sarah Coakley and Rowan Williams, the question is raised if there is a failure to distinguish a total futility of suffering and suffering love. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this PBI discussion Rob, Trenton, Allan, Justin, David, Matt, and Paul, discuss misdirected desire and its redirection through a real world connectedness of love in the Spirit. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this PBI discussion Matt, Allan, Dan, Justin, David, Rob, and Paul discuss how Mary is perceived in Catholicism and in Eastern Orthodoxy, and how the feminine role of the Spirit is preserved in an embodied experiential understanding of God. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this first PBI discussion on the Holy Spirit Dan, Matt, Robb, Justin, David, and Paul discuss Sarah Coakley's and Jürgen Moltmann's work on the Holy Spirit as it pertains to the sexual crisis and the subordination of the Spirit in the scholastic approach to the Trinity.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.  

Paul Axton preaches - Herod slaughters the innocent children of Bethlehem in an attempt to foreshorten the state mandated murder accomplished under Pilate. His lying pretense to find and worship the Messiah gives us a working principle on how to consider the desire of government to worship Christ as King.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton Preaches - In Greek thought, represented in Plato's allegory of the cave, the material world is but a realm of shadows blocking out the sun (representative of transcendent truth), so that which is of the womb/cave is unreal and truth is thought to abide in the transcendent forms. The Virgin Birth finds the absolute, the sun, the equivalent of the the forms, in the womb. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this PBI discussion of the final chapter of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Allan, Tim, Matt, Nathan, Rob, David, and Paul compare and contrast desire versus hope, the frustration of life in the imaginary with life in Christ, and the body of death with life in the Spirit.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton Preaches - The shattering of the idols of a settled notion of God in Christ opens us to the world as a reflection of his activity and presence in human relationships and interdependence with the world. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.