Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton
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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. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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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.  If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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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.  If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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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. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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Sep 22, 2025 • 1h 23min

Part 2 David Artman: Universal Restoration Through Christ

Matt and Paul talk with David Artman, author and host of the podcast Grace Saves All. In this conversation we discuss how universal redemption is necessarily through Christ and may be completed through and beyond death. David also details his recent reading and podcasts on the rise of fascism through Pentecostalism. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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Sep 20, 2025 • 27min

Sermon: Universal Restoration Through Death and Judgment

Paul Axton preaches: Death and judgment are not the end of the story in Scripture but either the continuation of the work begun in Christ or a restorative judgment in which all are drawn into restoration and salvation. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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Sep 15, 2025 • 1h 10min

David Artman: Universalism as a Theodicy?

The author of the book and podcast "Grace Saves All," David Artman, describes his entry into universalism and the development of his book and raises the issue of its playing the role of a theodicy. (Sign up for the class Human Language, Signs of God: using Anthony Bartlett’s two books, Theology Beyond Metaphysics and Signs of Change, as one continuous argument.  The course will run from 2025/9/16 to 2025/11/4. Register here: https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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Sep 13, 2025 • 33min

Sermon: Is Knowing Christ Entry into a Fulness of the Mind/Brain?

Paul Axton preaches: In this sermon, linking the left/brain right/brain theory of Iain McGilchrist with Paul's distinction between letter and Spirit, a connection is made between how it is the left hemisphere of the brain can take predominance in the same way the law can become its own end, and this is suspended in the opening up of Christ to the thought of God on the order of a full utilization of the right brain. (Sign up for the class Human Language, Signs of God: using Anthony Bartlett’s two books, Theology Beyond Metaphysics and Signs of Change, as one continuous argument.  The course will run from 2025/9/16 to 2025/11/4. Register here: https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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Sep 8, 2025 • 1h 1min

Kant with Sade: The Moral Argument and Radical Evil

In this continuation of our podcasts on Imaginative Apologetics, Paul addresses the moral argument as posed by Kant, and traces his coining the term "radical evil" and provide illustrations showing this is not simply a philosophical but a real world cause and effect - certain conceptions of morality are directly linked to the worst forms of evil.  (Sign up for the class Human Language, Signs of God: using Anthony Bartlett’s two books, Theology Beyond Metaphysics and Signs of Change, as one continuous argument.  The course will run from 2025/9/16 to 2025/11/4. Register here: https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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Sep 6, 2025 • 30min

Sermon: Why I am a Christian

Paul Axton preaches: When asked the reason for following Christ, Axton poses a one word answer upon which he builds an alternative understanding to the partial answer of being saved and shows that the choice is between meaning or no meaning.  (Sign up for the class Human Language, Signs of God: using Anthony Bartlett’s two books, Theology Beyond Metaphysics and Signs of Change, as one continuous argument.  The course will run from 2025/9/16 to 2025/11/4. Register here: https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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