Forging Ploughshares

Paul lays out his understanding of why Christ died and how His death can be described in terms of a change of subjectivity.

I think what we see God getting satisfaction out of, we do, too. In a very…

Paul and Frank continue their discussion on communion. This episode covers “real presence” and the meaning of “eating” and “drinking” the flesh and blood of Jesus. Rather than dwelling on the theoret…

Paul continues his study of I John.

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The universal notion of sacrifice and the biblical departure from this system in the Old Testament and in the sacrifice of Christ.

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Ethics and belief must be brought together in the ethic of love. To not bring them together results in ideology – a religion without content.

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The equation of hope/love, self-sacrifice/love, righteousness/love, recognizing Jesus/love. All of these are needed to arrive at a notion of agape love.

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The Christian ethic begins by putting our security in the hands of God. Evil arises because we would secure ourselves and this is the ground of personal and corporate evil.

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Modern apologetics would presume to be able to prove God through the traditional arguments for God. Paul proposes holistic witness as an alternative.

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How we define evil will be determinative of how we understand God. We know God not on the basis of a law or tradition as with the Friends of Job but through Christ. As we confront and challenge evil,…

Paul and Jonathan Totty talk about Kierkegaard’s pseudonym Johannes Climacus, and how he travels a road very similar to Zizek and Lacan. The difference of course is that Kierkegaard moves beyond Clim…

Paul continues his explanation of Romans 13.

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Paul’s study in I John continues, this time about practicing righteousness and what it means to be born again.

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Paul explains the disastrous consequences in the 20th Century brought about in part by the role modern philosophy of religion played.

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Paul addresses how the Christian should respond to evil government in Romans 13.

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Paul describes the keys to recognizing the false Christians among us.

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What kind of dialogue does the Gospel of peace have with the state, especially in as dark a political time as the one we find ourselves in? That of obedient supporters of its agendas or of withdrawn …

Subordination is significantly different from unconditional obedience.  Was Christ “obedient” to Rome?  He was killed by Rome.  Romans 13 is not about “blind obedience to the state.”  If that was the…

John poses three tests to determine orthodoxy: The moral test (How do you walk in light or darkness?), the social test (Do you continue to fellowship with the saints or are you divisive?) and the doc…

Paul discusses how our own self-image and the idolatrous image reflect a failed image. The restoration of the image in Christ is actually more of a fulfillment of an original potential.

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In this study John’s opposed pairs are shown to counter dualistic notions in that one pair is always pictured as overcoming the other. Salvation is pictured as entailing a set of practices (walking i…