Forging Ploughshares

Sermon - The Sui Generis Nature of the Gospel

Paul Axton Preaches - The gospel inaugurates a new world order with its own understanding and reason. The argument of Galatians is that the gospel is its own foundation and does not depend on law, rhetoric, reason, religion, or anything else, as it is the speech act of God in which the Christ event continues to unfold.

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Distinguishing an Authentic from a Counterfeit Experience of God

In this lecture Paul Axton distinguishes the manner in which true experience of God includes the created order, while the counterfeit experience (inclusive of forms of reason) excludes the world and thought itself.

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Sermon: The Eternal Created Image

Several passages in the Bible depict humans as reflecting the image of God, and by extension the entire creation bears the mark or image of the creator. The implication is that creations purpose is fulfilled in this image bearing which embraces the role of all of creation and our own story in the created order.

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Cultural Biblical Interpretation

Jon and Paul discuss the history of biblical interpretation, critical approaches to Scripture, and the recent role of "cultural interpretation" as a means of arriving at a peaceable hermeneutic. 

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Sermon: Experience of God

Paul Axton Preaches - There is a definitive description of the experiential reality of God in which one world system with its morality and apriori presumptions melts away.

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Interview with the Artist Corby Blem

Jason discusses the unique perspective and insight of the art of Corby Blem with the artist. View the accompanying video to go along with the discussion of this unique artist.
https://youtu.be/D7DFTBoo_B0

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Sermon: The Sublime Experience of Resurrection Faith

Paul Axton Preaches - The Christian experience of the sublime is the simultaneous recognition of the overwhelming power unleashed into the world and the existential recognition that this power is unleashed in our own life in resurrection faith. 

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Religion as Defined by Ludwig Feuerbach, Peter Berger, and Mircea Eliade

In this lecture Paul Axton examines the insights and problems with the three reigning understandings of religion.

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Life in the Spirit

In this lecture on the Holy Spirit, Paul Axton depicts the communion of God within the immanent Trinity as the ground of human communion. 

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The Moral Fullness of Narrative or Imaginative Apologetics

Paul Axton, in a course at the Carpenter's House, explains the failure of modern thought as it is connected to natural philosophy and proposes a morally and aesthetically engaged understanding in a narrative or imaginative understanding.

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