Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton pits the salvation historical approach of N. T. Wright or the Quest for the Historical Jesus against the apocalyptic revelation of being found "in Christ" as in Galatians. Transference out…

Paul Axton describes a horseback journey to Adobe Walls on the old XIT Ranch which completes the story of his recent blog on the role of our own creation of memory as it plays out in our reading of t…

American Christian nationalism conjoined with Christian Zionism strangely reduplicates the false teaching Paul identifies with the false gospel in Galatians. The only antidote to the pervasive spread…

Paul Axton Preaches - The gospel inaugurates a new world order with its own understanding and reason. The argument of Galatians is that the gospel is its own foundation and does not depend on law, rh…

In this lecture Paul Axton distinguishes the manner in which true experience of God includes the created order, while the counterfeit experience (inclusive of forms of reason) excludes the world and …

Several passages in the Bible depict humans as reflecting the image of God, and by extension the entire creation bears the mark or image of the creator. The implication is that creations purpose is f…

Jon and Paul discuss the history of biblical interpretation, critical approaches to Scripture, and the recent role of "cultural interpretation" as a means of arriving at a peaceable hermeneutic. 

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Paul Axton Preaches - There is a definitive description of the experiential reality of God in which one world system with its morality and apriori presumptions melts away.

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Jason discusses the unique perspective and insight of the art of Corby Blem with the artist. View the accompanying video to go along with the discussion of this unique artist.
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Paul Axton Preaches - The Christian experience of the sublime is the simultaneous recognition of the overwhelming power unleashed into the world and the existential recognition that this power is unl…

In this lecture Paul Axton examines the insights and problems with the three reigning understandings of religion.

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In this lecture on the Holy Spirit, Paul Axton depicts the communion of God within the immanent Trinity as the ground of human communion. 

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Paul Axton, in a course at the Carpenter's House, explains the failure of modern thought as it is connected to natural philosophy and proposes a morally and aesthetically engaged understanding in a n…

Paul Axton Preaches - In philosophy of religion and apologetics the moral and religious arguments for God proceed from the universality of religious beliefs or morality to the conclusion that God mus…

Paul Axton Preaches - The revelation of the two-part name of God to Moses is fulfilled in the divinity and humanity of the incarnate Christ.  The implication is that creation is a fit dwelling for Go…

Jason and Paul, in discussing the course (Imaginative Apologetics) starting October 19th, discuss how philosophical arguments, such, as the moral argument, have given rise to radical evil as a concep…

Paul Axton Preaches - Paul, in Ephesians, describes the Christian life as seeing everything differently, a seeing from the heart or waking up to the light. C. S. Lewis described his baptism as a bapt…

Jason and Paul indicate how the philosophical arguments play into a failed psychology and point to the need for a fuller and more robust recognition of the Gospel as part of an apologetic. Our course…

Paul Axton Preaches - The events of history bear the truth of Christianity so that this truth invites a redefinition, not only of truth, but of legitimate human sovereignty, justice, and reason.  

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Jason and Paul discuss the approach of imaginative apologetics in contrast to the traditional approach to natural theology.

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