Forging Ploughshares

Sermon: Sin as Disease and Salvation as Healing

Paul Axton Preaches - In the Western conception, as handed down through Augustine, Anselm, Luther, and Calvin, sin and salvation function as an extension of the law, making redemption a legal fiction. In the Bible, sin is a disease, a lie, enslavement, or corruption, all involved in an orientation to death, and all solved in a real world fashion through Christ's defeat of this orientation. 

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Depicting the Spirit

Allan, Matt, David, Justin, and Paul discuss the history of iconography and Christian art and the implications of its depiction of the Trinity and the tendency to diminish the role of the Spirit, culminating in the Spirit's displacement by depictions of Mary.

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Distinguishing Kinds of Suffering Part II

In this PBI Discussion Rob, Dan and Paul take up the issue of suffering and extend the discussion to a conclusion as to practical ways as to how to view and handle suffering - repudiating the notion that God needs suffering.

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Distinguishing Types of Suffering

In this PBI discussion Allan, David, Justin, Dan, Matt, and Paul discuss types of suffering as perceived in East and West and as distinguished in Romans 7 & 8. In a critique of Sarah Coakley and Rowan Williams, the question is raised if there is a failure to distinguish a total futility of suffering and suffering love.

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Redirecting Desire through Hope

In this PBI discussion Rob, Trenton, Allan, Justin, David, Matt, and Paul, discuss misdirected desire and its redirection through a real world connectedness of love in the Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit as Feminine

In this PBI discussion Matt, Allan, Dan, Justin, David, Rob, and Paul discuss how Mary is perceived in Catholicism and in Eastern Orthodoxy, and how the feminine role of the Spirit is preserved in an embodied experiential understanding of God.

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The Holy Spirit and the Crisis of Desire

In this first PBI discussion on the Holy Spirit Dan, Matt, Robb, Justin, David, and Paul discuss Sarah Coakley's and Jürgen Moltmann's work on the Holy Spirit as it pertains to the sexual crisis and the subordination of the Spirit in the scholastic approach to the Trinity. 

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Sermon: The Feast of the Holy Innocents

Paul Axton preaches - Herod slaughters the innocent children of Bethlehem in an attempt to foreshorten the state mandated murder accomplished under Pilate. His lying pretense to find and worship the Messiah gives us a working principle on how to consider the desire of government to worship Christ as King. 

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Sermon: The Virgin Birth as Refutation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Paul Axton Preaches - In Greek thought, represented in Plato's allegory of the cave, the material world is but a realm of shadows blocking out the sun (representative of transcendent truth), so that which is of the womb/cave is unreal and truth is thought to abide in the transcendent forms. The Virgin Birth finds the absolute, the sun, the equivalent of the the forms, in the womb.

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The Law of Life in the Spirit Displaces the Law of Sin and Death

In this PBI discussion of the final chapter of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Allan, Tim, Matt, Nathan, Rob, David, and Paul compare and contrast desire versus hope, the frustration of life in the imaginary with life in Christ, and the body of death with life in the Spirit. 

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