Forging Ploughshares

Jon and Paul continue their discussion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by linking his thought to a development of the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, meaning that religionless Christianity is linked to a critiq…

Paul Axton Preaches - 20 years after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, evangelicalism has given into a cult of personality and religious nationalism, not unlike that of Nazi Germany. Dietrich Bonhoeffer…

Jon and Paul continue their discussion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, discussing the extent to which he was working within Lutheran parameters and the degree to which this impinged upon his understanding of…

Jon and Paul take up a three part series on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and in this initial podcast introduce several approaches to his biography as this relates to his theology. In regard to his "religionle…

David and Paul review the failure of theology and philosophy as it has been caught up in an unquestioning orientation to the law and as is summed up in the introduction to Paul Axton's book The Psych…

In this PBI discussion of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Tim, Matt, Allan, Rob, Nathan, and Paul discuss how German idealism intersects with theology, psychoanalysis and …

Paul Axton Preaches - There is a brand of Christianity that imagines Paul, in Romans 7:14-25, is describing the normal Christian life. But to Miss how chapter 7 contrasts with Romans chapter 8 is to …

In this PBI course discussion Matt, Rob, Allan, Trenton and Paul review a Pauline/Lacanian approach to philosophy and Ludwig Wittgenstein's intervention into philosophy.

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Paul Axton Preaches - The deadly belief in conspiracy theories is a type of a belief in the satanic conspiracy that there is life in the law - which kills. The evangelical religion and its key theolo…

Paul Axton Preaches - The continual theme of Scripture is God's sustaining, nurturing presence, which was once a presumed part of Christian experience. With the rise of modernity and modern theology …

Paul Axton lectures on Romans 16, focusing on the significant role of women, such as the female apostle Junia, Phoebe - Paul's spokesperson and carrier of the letter, Priscilla and Aquilla, and the p…

Paul Axton Preaches - In relationship to ourselves we hit upon an absence or discord that points us to the one who constitutes and participates in our own deepest understanding and experience of ours…

Paul Axton lectures on Romans 15 the summation and conclusion of Romans, found in Paul's cosmic vision of a new fellowship and humanity which in its world wide vision comes to pertain to the particul…

Paul Axton preaches - Human sinfulness is defined in Galatians as an incapacity to question a perverse orientation to the Law. This is exemplified by Mike Pompeo's rejection of critical race theory a…

Paul Axton lectures on the life and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, tracing parallels to Freud, Hegel, and Paul, while also mining his insight into the possible directions of human culture and the human…

In this lecture, Paul Axton, introduces the theory of Julian Jaynes and the bicameral mind and its development as the background to human consciousness. Comparison is made with the theory of Jacques …

Paul Axton lectures on Romans 14, the culminating point in Paul's argument which foresees a new form of humanity emerging in the new temple communities of Christians.

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Paul Axton Preaches - The God of the philosophers, the God of the law, the God of Christendom, and scientism is dead and to desire to return through fascism, right-wing fundamentalism, or nationalism…

In this PBI discussion Jino (from India), Alan (from Mexico), Jason, Matt, Jon, and Paul (in the U. S.)  consider the systematic theology of the post-liberal approach of James McClendon as compared t…