

Forging Ploughshares
Paul Axton
Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
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Oct 27, 2025 • 1h 5min
Frederick Bauerschmidt: Preaching Nonviolence in the Age of Trump
 Frederick Bauerschmidt describes the practical work of teaching about the peace of Christ in the Catholic Church when violent Christian nationalism is the norm. 
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Oct 25, 2025 • 30min
Sermon: The Liberating Truth of Christ as an Eternal Fact About God
 Paul Axton preaches: History is of eternal significance in that it pertains to God's identity, and the impact of this significance is in its liberation from an enslaving finite understanding into the liberating eternal reality of God found in Christ.
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Oct 20, 2025 • 58min
Part 2: Jordan Wood Answers Hart Through Hegel
 Jordan Daniel Wood continues the conversation with Matt and Paul and in part 2 describes Hegel's picture of an inadequate notion of the infinite, and he pictures Hart as falling into this failed understanding, which explains Hart's rejection of Jordan's Maximian-Hegelian understanding. 
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Oct 18, 2025 • 30min
Sermon: Theology of the Name - Jesus Christ as the Ground of Language
 Paul Axton preaches: appealing to the work of Sergius Bulgakov, Axton develops the significance of God's presence in the name given to Moses, and then Christ's assumption of this name and the opening to all the possibility of dwelling in the name, which describes the possibility of God pouring himself out in and through human language. 
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Oct 13, 2025 • 1h 6min
Part 1: Jordan Wood Answers Hart Through Hegel
 Jordan Daniel Wood, in conversation with Matt and Paul, explains the logic of Hegel as a natural development of Maximus' understanding of personhood, which also serves to address the failure of David Bentley Hart to grasp the paradigm shift Jordan is picturing in light of Hegel. 
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Oct 11, 2025 • 26min
The Erasure of Cosmic and Personal Trauma in the Lamb Crucified from the Foundation of the World
 In this talk at a gathering at a local restaurant (thus the country music in the background) Paul Axton presents the manner in which Christ defeats cosmic and personal trauma through the work of predestination.
The Erasure of Cosmic and Personal Trauma in the Lamb Crucified from the Foundation of the World 

Oct 6, 2025 • 57min
Part 2: Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien on Bulgakov's Sophiology
 Roberto J. De Noval and Mark Roosien describe Bulgaokov's entry into speculative theology through Sophiology.
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Oct 4, 2025 • 27min
Sermon: The Greek Logos Versus Jesus the Rejected Logos
 Paul Axton preaches: John identifies Jesus as the the rejected Logos, which means he is not the Greek logos, the Jewish logos, the philosophical logos, or the religious logos, or the logic, language, reason, or word that grounds this world’s systems of human thought. Martin Heidegger is the prime example of recognizing the violence of the Greek logos, and then of presuming the Logos of Christ is a continuation of the same. René Girard brings out the absolute difference, developed most completely by Anthony Bartlett. 
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Sep 29, 2025 • 1h 3min
Part 1: Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien on Bulgakov's Universalism
 Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien describe to Brad and Paul their encounter with Sergius Bulgakov and detail his understanding of universal salvation in its personal implications. 
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Sep 27, 2025 • 27min
Sermon: The Semiotics of Christ
 Paul Axton preaches: Rene Girard pictures the body of the scapegoat as the original sign and signification, which accords with the depiction of religion in the Bible and in the religions of the world, and Christ directly reverses this sign and provides a new order of meaning.
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