Forging Ploughshares
Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 939
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
What is the Difference Between Evil and Sin and How are they Defeated
Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss how evil is different than sin and how resurrection defeats both categories.
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Sin Defined Through the Solution of Resurrection
Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss the key passage in Romans 5, often mistranslated in the Western tradition, and how sin needs to be redefined as an orientation to death answered by resurrection.
The Defeat of the Law of Sin and Death
Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss the existential experience of death and its defeat.
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The Law of Sin and Death
Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss the existential experience of death and discuss how sin and death are interwoven in Paul, Barth, and psychoanalysis.
Our Story: Matt, Jon, and Paul Describe How the Christian Narrative Brought Them Together
Matt, Jon, and Paul continue their discussion of the work of Douglas Campbell, focusing this week on narrative and the way in which this story bound the three of us together.
Making Sense of Our World Through Narrative: Story in the Work of Douglas Campbell, Kierkegaard, and Psychoanalysis
Matt, Jon, and Paul continue their discussion of the work of Douglas Campbell, focusing this week on narrative and the way in which Christ's story can bind our lives and the world together.
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful, Revealed in Christ
Matt, Jon, and Paul continue their discussion of Douglas Campbell, focusing on the transcendentals and living out the Gospel.
Truth is the Way - A Discussion of Truth According to Søren Kierkegaard and Douglas Campbell
Matt, Jon, and Paul, discuss the apocalyptic notion of truth shared by Søren Kierkegaard and Douglas Campbell and contrast this with other notions of truth.
Witnessing to Apocalyptic Love in the Theology of Douglas Campbell
Matt, Jon, and Paul continue their discussion of how love is definitive in an apocalyptic approach to theology. Love describes God as a communion of persons, which means that community and relationsh…
A Discussion of the Love of God in the Context of Apocalyptic Theology
In this 8 part series Matt, Jon, and Paul, follow the work of Douglas Campbell, focusing and expanding on his recent work, Pauline Dogmatics. In this second discussion, the love of God in an apocalyp…
Who is Jesus? A Discussion About Douglas Campbell and Apocalyptic Theology
In this 8 part series Matt, Jon, and Paul, follow the work of Douglas Campbell, focusing and expanding on his recent work, Pauline Dogmatics. In this opening discussion the foundation of Christ, over…
Part II - A Discussion of Terrence Malick's Film "The Tree of Life" and The Problem of Evil
Paul & Hayden continue their discussion of "The Tree of Life" and focus in on the films portrayal of the problem of evil and its depiction of a resolution.
Part I: A Discussion of Terrence Malick's Film "The Tree of Life"
In Part I of a two part discussion, Hayden and Paul discuss the prayer like film, "The Tree of Life" and draw out the theological implications of the role of nature and grace in the life of the O'Bri…
Narrating Death as Part of Life
Jason and Paul continue their discussion of the role of narrative and poetry. In this discussion they focus on the power of narrative to capture the complete portrait of life, inclusive of death.
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The Real Story
Jason and Paul discuss the primary role of poems and stories in capturing reality - the reality of injustices and the prime reality of simple beauty. Deploying the work of Wendell Berry and selection…
Introduction to James McClendon
In this lecture Paul Axton introduces the first comprehensive post-liberal theology - the work of James McClendon. McClendon moves beyond the controversies of modernity to a theology which builds upo…
Sermon: The Objects of God's Wrath are also the Objects of His Love and of Salvation
Paul Axton Preaches - "God's anger, is at one with his love; so, too, God's mercy and his justice are one and the same. Mercy and punishment are not opposed; for punishment - the consuming fire - is …
Who is the Preexistent Word?
Matt, John, and Paul, discuss the early Orthodox understanding that Jesus is the revelation of the immanent Trinity and the wide ramifications this has for the doctrine of God and theological anthrop…
Sermon: Peace in the Body
Paul Axton preaches - This verse speaks of three different groups or three different types of people. We can trace three psychological types which correspond to these three orientations.
Part 2: The Critique and Preservation of Culture in Christ
Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss the interaction of Christ with culture by using Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, displaced by Christ, as an example of how the violence of Christ filters out evil and li…