Forging Ploughshares

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 Schmit…

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.

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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 …

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 host…

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 depicti…

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…

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, cul…

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 …

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 Rowa…

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.

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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…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 wi…

In this PBI discussion of chapter 9 of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Allan, Tim, Matt, Nathan, Thomas, Trenton, Rob, and Paul discuss the three part structure of the hum…

In this PBI discussion Paul and Allan review Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation (chapters 3-7), explaining key points through philosophical thinkers and their impact on theolo…

Paul Axton Preaches - A prayerful attitude allowing the for the work of the Holy Spirit engenders a new emotional life and alternative character summed up in a continual thanksgiving.

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