Forging Ploughshares
Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 939
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Jesus As True Temple and True Sacrifice Defeats Death - He Does Not Die for God!
This sermon pictures the various rituals surrounding the temple as focused on cleansing from death. The ultimate cleansing is from the rebellion of sin and death - this is the meaning of the atoning …
Who is the Better Follower of Christ Gandhi or Calvin?
Thomas Evans, Jonathan Totty, Matt Welch, & Paul Axton discuss the essence of Christianity. Did Gandhi have it better than Calvin? In this wide-ranging discussion, we touch upon the work of Tolstoy, …
Jesus' Life Saves: Not His Death Alone - Hebrews 9
An explanation of Hebrews 9, often used to support penal substitution. Paul Axton argues that it is at the ascension of Jesus, not His death, that atonement is completely worked out.
Apocalypse Now - Hebrews 12
Paul Axton continues his study in Hebrews.
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Hebrews 8 - Heaven on Earth
The Jewish shadow and form resolved through the temple.
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Gender Issues - Egalitarianism/Complimentarianism and Beyond
Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss gender.
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Hebrews 11:20ff - The Vision of Radical Faith
Paul Axton continues his study in Hebrews.
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Hebrews 7 - An Indestructible High Priest
Resurrection is at the center of salvation.
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An Alternative Christian Education: Ploughshares Bible Institute
Jason Rodenbeck and Paul Axton discuss an alternative to traditional seminary and Bible college. What is the difference of an education derived from the principle of peace?
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Hebrews 11:7 - Faith as the Resolution to Sin
Faith breaks open a closed cosmos and a closed economy to receive God's gifts.
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Hebrews 6:9 - What Foundation and What Enlightenment
A sure Promise - Jesus has gone behind the veil. The Transcendent and immanent nature of truth as we have it in Christ.
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Hebrews 11:1-6 - Is Faith Primarily Subjective or Objective?
Is faith an interior state or a participation in a transcendent essence. How we understand the "essence" of faith is determinative of the shape of our Christianity.
Modernity and the Secular - Toward a Resolution (Part 4)
Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss the potential resolution to the modernist divide between faith and reason to be found in Radical Orthodoxy, Postliberalism, Barthianism, and the the thought of L…
Hebrews 6 - Theosis
Chapter 6 of Hebrews can be compared to II Peter in its description of "partaking" in deity.
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Hebrews 10:32 - Salvation is a Practice
Salvation is an embodied, practical salvation which is inclusive of practicing virtue. The way to virtue is by practice.
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How Was Jesus Delivered from Death - Hebrews 5:7
The counter to liberalism and fundamentalism is a proper appreciation of bodily resurrection and ascension.
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Resurrection as Perfection - Hebrews 5
The resurrection and ascension is the point of perfection which is then what is mediated to us. This accords more with theosis than Western notions of atonement.
Atonement and Forgiveness - Hebrews 10:19ff
Frank Dugan makes a distinction between various metaphors and the telos of God's creative and restorative work, in particular forgiveness as an accounting metaphor. Paul Axton then leads the study o…
The Two Goat Theology of Hebrews 9-10
The two goats - YHWH and Azazel - of Yom Kippur are both referenced in 9:28. Paul explains how this shapes Heb 9-10. Keeping the goats straight will bring clarity to the meaning of how Christ saves.
Temple Theology as an Understanding of the Nature of God - Hebrews 10
The temple as microcosmos and mirror of heaven stand in tension, but the resolution of this tension is to be found in a properly worked-out Christology.