Forging Ploughshares

Sermon: Eucharist as the Completion of Emmanuel

Paul Axton preaches: The theme of Mathew captured in Immanuel, is completed in the Lord's Supper, in which the efficacious presence of God is made to bear on the lives of believers in what Hegel calls "actualized Christian Freedom." There is freedom from the violence of blood spilled in the taking up of the blood of Christ in the life of believers. 

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Emmanuel: The Presence of God as the Resolution to the Human Predicament

Paul Axton preaches: In this Christmas Sermon the role of presence ("God with us") and absence is traced in Scripture as the primary theme fulfilled in Christ; a theme also recognized in postmodern philosophy.

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An Expanded View of Recapitulation

In this continuation of discussions of sin and salvation, Paul Axton takes up and expands upon the early church understanding of recapitulation as an all-embracing understanding of atonement that accounts for the New Testament and the focus on the new divinized humanity found in Christ.

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The Rule of Faith and Deliverance from the Law of Sin and Death

In a continuation of the discussion of the nature of sin and salvation and hermeneutics, the discussion turns to how the rule of faith, or biblical hermeneutics centered on the person of Christ, brings out Christ's deliverance from the human predicament through his defeat of the rule of death over human lives. This is not an answer defined by law, but a deliverance from this orientation.

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Sin and Salvation: The Gospel as the Coherence of Scripture

In this new series on sin and salvation, Paul Axton introduces a series on theories of atonement, beginning with Christ as the "rule of faith" interpreting Scripture and exegeting God. The issues of psychological healing in connection to death drive, cosmic bondage and apocalyptic deliverance, and the eternality of the historical Christ are introduced.

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Jesus as Temple Recapitulation: Transformation of Historical Good Friday into Speculative Good Friday

In this talk Paul Axton gave at a local restaurant, the focus is on outlining the Gospel of Matthew as Jesus as Temple recapitulation, the implication of which is Jesus taking up the historical, social, and legal situation of the Temple and Israel, and this is worked out by Gillian Rose and G.W.F. Hegel as addressing the injustice of the law and the Temple or the City of Man. 

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Overcoming Dualism in the Body and the Bible Through the Synthesis of Christ

Brad and Paul discuss the work of Wittgenstein, Maximus, Hegel and Bulgakov as they converge on embodied synthesis in Christ and then extend the conversation to the synthesis of Scripture overcoming the contention in Job, Daniel, Maccabees, and Jonah over the split and violent or unified and peaceable image of God.

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Philosophy of Science: The Coherence of Creation

In a continuation of the discussion of Philosophy of Science, the ideas of Rupert Sheldrake about the dogmatism of science, leads to a discussion of the work of Christopher Kaiser on the creationist tradition and the development of science. 

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Personal Knowledge: The Debate Over Philosophy of Science Between Kuhn and Polanyi

This discussion of the teleological argument takes us into modern philosophy of science and the debate between Thomas Kuhn and Michael Polanyi. Paul Axton demonstrates the superiority of Polanyi's thought as reaching beyond Kuhn's stunted understanding. 

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Sermon: Jesus Sign of Halting Sacrificial Violence in the Temple

Paul Axton preaches: Jesus sign in the Temple is not simply pointing to the need to clean up the pricing system but to halt the economy of violent sacrifice and to deliver his sheep into an alternative nonviolent way of being human. 

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