Forging Ploughshares
Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 939
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Divine Simplicity and Atonement
Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Divine simplicity, which done wrongly gives us ontotheology but correctly understood it forecloses any notion which would reduce God - includin…
Following the Shepherd
Paul Axton concludes his sermon series on Hebrews.
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The Honor/Shame System of Hebrews
Paul Axton preaches on Hebrews 12:2 - Despising the Shame. It demonstrates the transvaluation taking place in Hebrews. It is still a system which accounts for honor but under a different mode of valu…
Hermeneutics
In this podcast, Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss the need for humility in reading scripture: Coming to the scripture with the attitude of desiring to be shaped by it as a part of the community …
The Death of Mishima (Yukio Mishima Part 5)
Paul completes his five-part series on Yukio Mishima. Mishima longs for a return to a childhood omniscience. He will achieve this through a tragic cause which justifies his suicide.
Living in the Apocalypse - Hebrews 12
Paul Axton continues his sermon series on Hebrews. Hebrews 12 pictures a present tense encounter with Mount Zion and the Heavenly Jerusalem. Bad apocalypse pictures ultimate destruction but biblical …
Conversation on Barth's doctrine of Election
Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Karl Barth's doctrine of election. Barth recovers a profound NT insight which puts a very different emphasis on predestination and election.
The Faith of the Martyrs - Hebrews 11:7ff
Paul Axton continues preaching on Hebrews. Chapter 11 characterizes faith as the capacity to face the reality of death and to trust God. This resurrection faith does not fall into the lie of denying …
Serving the Absolute Father through Death-Dealing Duty (Yukio Mishima Part 4)
Paul continues his series depicting the working of the law of sin and death through the life of Yukio Mishima.
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Sun and Steel (Yukio Mishima Part 3)
Paul Axton talks about Mishima's turn from writing to a turn to duty: Where his writing stood over and against his father his will now shape his life according to the word of his father by silencing …
Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima Part 2)
Paul Axton continues his exploration of Yukio Mishima, primarily working with his autobiographical novel Confessions of a Mask. Paul describes the turn away from love to self-destruction as a moral m…
The Objectivity of Faith
Paul Axton preaches on whether faith is subjective or objective.
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Aquinas on Evil
Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty talk about how evil is not a problem for Aquinas and becomes a problem only with the shift taking place in in his lifetime.
The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima
Paul Axton continues his use of Japan to illustrate his theological understanding. Yukio Mishima explains his justification for his traditional suicide in language that gets at the human struggle at …
Getting Beyond the Dialectic
Paul Axton begins to trace the origins of his discovery of dialectic in orientalism, Tadanobu Tsunoda, and Takeo Doi.
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Conclusion to Hebrews Study - Comparing two Christianities
Paul concludes his study in Hebrews.
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Mission in Japan
Jonathan Totty interviews Paul Axton on his experience in Japan. Paul describes why and how he ended up doing an analysis of psychoanalytic readings of Paul as a result of his experience.
Honor/Shame in Hebrews - Hebrews 13
As we come to the conclusion of Hebrews in chapter 13 we examine the economy the book is describing in terms of Honor and Shame. Not to say this is some historical artifact but is a universal truth a…
Hebrews 10 - Understanding the Work of Christ Through Two Pictures of the Temple
The temple as microcosmos an mirror of heaven emphasizes the immanence and transcendence of God respectively. Christ resolves this tension as true temple. At the same time the work of Christ and the …
Hebrews 12 - Distinguishing Evil and Discipline
Persecution, hostility toward God, and suffering are a futility and evil, but even these endured rightly can be transformed into a discipline.