Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton
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Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

  1. 1d ago

    Anthony Bartlett on the Contention over the Identity of God in Job and Deuteronomy

    Anthony Bartlett continues to unfold his nonviolent reading of God and Scripture in a comparison of Job and Deuteronomy, in which Job gives voice to the nonviolent, non-retributive, understanding of God, posed against the retributive justice of his friends as found in Deuteronomy.  If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

  2. 3d ago

    Sermon: The Alternative to Nuclear War

    Paul Axton preaches: The alternative to 9/11 and the threat of nuclear war is that the meek alone will inherit the Earth. Violent conquest through nuclear destruction points to the singular solution. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

  3. Sep 14

    Wendell Berry and Finding Our Place

    David, Jonathan, and Paul, discuss the profound influence of Wendell Berry on each of us in realizing the spiritual sense of place and belonging, addressing also alienation, racism, waywardness, and the redemptive grace made available in friendship. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

  4. Sep 12

    Sermon: The Spiritual Rootedness of Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton as an Expression of Universal Salvation

    Paul Axton Preaches: The particular expression of spiritual rootedness found in Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton is an entry into the meaning of universal salvation. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

  5. Sep 7

    Anthony Bartlett: The Hebrew Exodus from Violence

    Anthony Bartlett provides a Girardian reading of Genesis and Exodus, in which the Hebrew people are formed from oppressed outcasts, and in which liberation from violence and oppression, through the experience of Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, and the experience of Abraham, provides for the formation of the nonviolence pictured in creation and culminating in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

  6. Sep 5

    Sermon: The Crisis of Mediation Leading to the Intimate Mediation of Faith

    Paul Axton preaches: There is an apocalyptic logic laid out in the New Testament, which the Lutheran notion of justification misses, in which there is a crisis and implosion, an attempt to silence God, and it is from the midst of this attempt to destroy him that Christ speaks.  If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

  7. Aug 31

    Anthony Bartlett on the Significance of Benoît Chantre for Girardian Theory

    Anthony Bartlett explains to Brad and Paul the significance of Benoît Chantre, the biographer and last key conversation partner with René Girard with whom the book Battling to the End, Girard's last word. Chantre attempts to direct Girard away from a dark apocalypticism toward what he calls an intimate mediation in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

  8. Aug 29

    Sermon: Redefining Luther’s “Justification” Through a Fuller Reading of Paul

    Paul Axton preaches: Paul describes the "end of the law" which is "nailed to the cross" and "set aside" along with the power of the "rulers and authorities" so that a fulness of Paul's reading gets beyond Luther's constricted understanding of grace and faith which are still functioning on the basis of the law. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

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  • Creator
    Paul Axton
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    999
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    © Copyright Forging Ploughshares 2017. All rights reserved.
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