Forging Ploughshares

Freud Goes to Japan

Paul Axton traces the manner in which Freud was taken up in Japan and the deep resonance between his theory and a Japanese sensibility.

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The Orient of the Mind

Paul Axton explains that orientalism is not simply academic or nationalistic but is intimately tied to psychology and human interiority. Japanese used the work of Sigmund Freud, very much an orientalist, so as to manufacture an identity to ward off and reverse the denigrating assessments of the West. Japanese psychologists and texts literally reverse Freud and his valuation system and this reversal has become a key part of the Japanese search for identity.

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Orientalism II

Paul Axton discusses identity through difference illustrated in Orientalism Part II. If Japan is a mud swamp which has successfully warded off Christianity (which it is and has for the most part), it is by virtue of the same power which has shaped Christianity so as to fit modern Western identity. This is an understanding defeated by a right understanding of sin as an orientation to death defeated in resurrection.

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Orientalism as an Example of Truth Inhering in a Lie

Orientalism serves as an example of identity through difference as a failed form of thought that necessarily involves us in the lie of attempting to reify a human construct.

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Heidegger and Nishida - Distilling the Philosophical Evil of National Socialism and Japanese Fascism

Paul Axton explains how the two premier thinkers of East and West (Heidegger and Nishida) converge on a singular idea which gets at the root of philosophical evil in the 20th century.

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Interview with Richard Hughes - The Myth of White Supremacy among Christians

The premiere historian of the Restoration Movement, Richard Hughes, discusses his research with Paul Axton, tracing the core myth of white supremacy which stands behind the myth of America as a Christian Nation.

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Postliberalism - Living in the Tension - Part 2 of 2

Paul Axton and Jason Rodenbeck continue their conversation on living in the tension of postliberalism which requires people to entrust themselves to God.

Part 2 of 2.

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Postliberalism - Living in the Tension - Part 1 of 2

Paul Axton and Jason Rodenbeck differentiate postliberalism and liberalism.

Part 1 of 2.

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What is Original Sin - A Discussion of the Development and Impact of the Doctrine

Paul Axton begins a new series answering basic theological questions, beginning with original sin.

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Postliberalism as Over and Against Fundamentalism and Liberalism as Well as Postmodernism - Part 2 of 2

Hayden Hagerman and Paul Axton discuss how Postliberalism intercedes into modern thought- as a disruption on the order of idolatry undone and absorbed by the strange new world of the Bible.

Part 2 of 2.

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