Forging Ploughshares

Slavoj Žižek, German Idealism, Psychoanalysis and the Bible

In this PBI discussion of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Tim, Matt, Allan, Rob, Nathan, and Paul discuss how German idealism intersects with theology, psychoanalysis and the biblical depiction of the human problem and its cure.

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Sermon: The Contrast Between the Failed and Redeemed Human Subject

Paul Axton Preaches - There is a brand of Christianity that imagines Paul, in Romans 7:14-25, is describing the normal Christian life. But to Miss how chapter 7 contrasts with Romans chapter 8 is to miss out the fulness of life in Christ.

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The Philosophical Sickness and Wittgenstein's Therapy

In this PBI course discussion Matt, Rob, Allan, Trenton and Paul review a Pauline/Lacanian approach to philosophy and Ludwig Wittgenstein's intervention into philosophy.

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Sermon: Finding Life in the Midst of a Deadly Plague of Religion

Paul Axton Preaches - The deadly belief in conspiracy theories is a type of a belief in the satanic conspiracy that there is life in the law - which kills. The evangelical religion and its key theologian promote this lie as the cure which causes many to miss the true cure. 

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The Three Parts of the Pauline, Freudian and Lacanian Subject

In this PBI course discussion referencing Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Tim, Nathan, Matt, Allan, Dan and Paul, discuss the dynamics of human subjectivity in Paul's depiction of the ego, law and body of death (in Romans 7), as they overlap with the Freudian/Lacanian registers.

Sermon: The Genealogy and Cure Of Loneliness

Paul Axton Preaches - The continual theme of Scripture is God's sustaining, nurturing presence, which was once a presumed part of Christian experience. With the rise of modernity and modern theology there is a peculiar loneliness (a felt absence) which can be diagnosed as an aggravated form of Paul's picture of sin overcome in Christ.

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Romans 16: Paul's Pax Christus

Paul Axton lectures on Romans 16, focusing on the significant role of women, such as the female apostle Junia, Phoebe - Paul's spokesperson and carrier of the letter, Priscilla and Aquilla, and the profound warmth and personal connection displayed in the conclusion of Romans. 

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Sermon: I Am Not Me But Am Constituted By Another

Paul Axton Preaches - In relationship to ourselves we hit upon an absence or discord that points us to the one who constitutes and participates in our own deepest understanding and experience of ourselves.

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Romans 15: New Temple Koinonia

Paul Axton lectures on Romans 15 the summation and conclusion of Romans, found in Paul's cosmic vision of a new fellowship and humanity which in its world wide vision comes to pertain to the particulars of loving relationship. 

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Sermon: The Pervert's Guide to the Gospel

Paul Axton preaches - Human sinfulness is defined in Galatians as an incapacity to question a perverse orientation to the Law. This is exemplified by Mike Pompeo's rejection of critical race theory as potentially a questioning of the law that could bring down the country, yet Paul's picture is that the Jewish law is hostile and exclusive and Christianity resolves this hostility.

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