Forging Ploughshares

Michael Hardin on Mimetic Atonement and Discipleship

Michael Hardin spells out his key advancement of Girardian theory in his development of a positive view of mimesis as the very mode of salvation. 

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Sermon: Recovering the Prophetic Voice of the Loved Enemy

Paul Axton preaches: In this sermon on the necessity of love of enemy to arrive at the perfection of God, the focus is on the possible insight the "enemy" such as Islam and Iran might have into the failures of Western Christianity. 

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Michael Hardin On Girard and Hebrews

Michael Hardin explains how René Girard scapegoated the term sacrifice and the book of Hebrews and how he corrected course in regard to Hebrews. Karl and Paul discuss attachment of fundamentalism to the historical critical method, and then Nate and Paul point out to Michael the same problem with theological liberalism, and propose an alternative Christocentric hermeneutic in place of historicism. 

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The Personification of the Jewish Conception of Sabbath Realized in Christ

Brad and Paul discuss the attached sermon tracing a Jewish understanding of Sabbath as synonymous with God and with being joined to God, as in marriage, and the development of an event oriented understanding degraded into a space surrounding tabernacle and temple taken up and transformed by Christ.

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Michael Hardin on Nonviolent Atonement

In this continued discussion with Michael Hardin, Michael lays out a theory of a nonviolent atonement, through Girardian theory. Michael pictures this as key to understanding the cross and the Bible. 

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The Epstein Class and the Augustinian Compromise

Brad and Paul discuss the attached sermon, of how it is that the church seems to no longer be a resistant community, as Paul and Origen would have it, "putting on the full armor of God," and how it is that Augustinian just war theory, and its exterior/interior division points to a morally compromised church and culture marked by the rise of Jeffrey Epstein and friends.

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Michael Hardin on a Girardian Reading of the Bible

Michael Hardin, an expert and friend of René Girard, explains how a Girardian reading of the Bible solves the problem posed by Marcion, of distinguishing between the violent God of the Jews and the Father of Jesus Christ.

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Sermon: "He Became Sin For Us" as Righteousness Realized

Paul Axton preaches: In this sermon reversing the usual meaning of Christ "becoming sin for us" the working of the cross is examined at a deep psychoanalytic and personal level, through the lens of Julian of Norwich, and her reversal of theology. 

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Michael Hardin Explains the Comprehensive Nature of Mimetic Theory

Michael Hardin, the friend of and expert on René Girard, explains the comprehensive nature of mimesis, from the novel, to psychology, anthropology, and religion, explaining the scientific background and universal application of the theory.

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Sermon: The Healing Presence of God in Sabbath

Paul Axton preaches: Bringing together the thought of William Desmond with Maximus the Confessor, this sermon traces how the seventh day is the revelation and reflexive divine presence fulfilled in Christ. 

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