Forging Ploughshares
Paul Axton
Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
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Nov 11, 2017 • 23min
Hebrews 6:9 - What Foundation and What Enlightenment
A sure Promise - Jesus has gone behind the veil. The Transcendent and immanent nature of truth as we have it in Christ.
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Nov 6, 2017 • 54min
Hebrews 11:1-6 - Is Faith Primarily Subjective or Objective?
Is faith an interior state or a participation in a transcendent essence. How we understand the "essence" of faith is determinative of the shape of our Christianity.
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Nov 4, 2017 • 56min
Modernity and the Secular - Toward a Resolution (Part 4)
Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss the potential resolution to the modernist divide between faith and reason to be found in Radical Orthodoxy, Postliberalism, Barthianism, and the the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Oct 30, 2017 • 25min
Hebrews 6 - Theosis
Chapter 6 of Hebrews can be compared to II Peter in its description of "partaking" in deity.
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Oct 28, 2017 • 38min
Hebrews 10:32 - Salvation is a Practice
Salvation is an embodied, practical salvation which is inclusive of practicing virtue. The way to virtue is by practice.
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Oct 23, 2017 • 25min
How Was Jesus Delivered from Death - Hebrews 5:7
The counter to liberalism and fundamentalism is a proper appreciation of bodily resurrection and ascension.
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Oct 16, 2017 • 32min
Resurrection as Perfection - Hebrews 5
The resurrection and ascension is the point of perfection which is then what is mediated to us. This accords more with theosis than Western notions of atonement.
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Oct 14, 2017 • 42min
Atonement and Forgiveness - Hebrews 10:19ff
Frank Dugan makes a distinction between various metaphors and the telos of God's creative and restorative work, in particular forgiveness as an accounting metaphor. Paul Axton then leads the study on Hebrews 10:19ff.
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Oct 9, 2017 • 35min
The Two Goat Theology of Hebrews 9-10
The two goats - YHWH and Azazel - of Yom Kippur are both referenced in 9:28. Paul explains how this shapes Heb 9-10. Keeping the goats straight will bring clarity to the meaning of how Christ saves.
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Oct 7, 2017 • 49min
Temple Theology as an Understanding of the Nature of God - Hebrews 10
The temple as microcosmos and mirror of heaven stand in tension, but the resolution of this tension is to be found in a properly worked-out Christology.
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