Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton Preaches - In this time in which the church and Christianity may seem to be failing, the example of both Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard in their response to a failed Christianity is key.  Both turn to an understanding that Christ mediates the love of God within the life of the individual. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Jon and Paul continue their discussion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by linking his thought to a development of the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, meaning that religionless Christianity is linked to a critique of Christendom, and cheap and costly grace, worldliness, and obedience are all also Kierkegaardian concepts developed by Bonhoeffer. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton Preaches - 20 years after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, evangelicalism has given into a cult of personality and religious nationalism, not unlike that of Nazi Germany. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call for a religionless Christianity may be the answer. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Jon and Paul continue their discussion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, discussing the extent to which he was working within Lutheran parameters and the degree to which this impinged upon his understanding of a religionless Christianity. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Jon and Paul take up a three part series on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and in this initial podcast introduce several approaches to his biography as this relates to his theology. In regard to his "religionless Christianity" Jon defends a reading that sees this as provisional and immediate while Paul suggests Bonhoeffer means this theologically and universally. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

David and Paul review the failure of theology and philosophy as it has been caught up in an unquestioning orientation to the law and as is summed up in the introduction to Paul Axton's book The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this PBI discussion of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Tim, Matt, Allan, Rob, Nathan, and Paul discuss how German idealism intersects with theology, psychoanalysis and the biblical depiction of the human problem and its cure. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton Preaches - There is a brand of Christianity that imagines Paul, in Romans 7:14-25, is describing the normal Christian life. But to Miss how chapter 7 contrasts with Romans chapter 8 is to miss out the fulness of life in Christ. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this PBI course discussion Matt, Rob, Allan, Trenton and Paul review a Pauline/Lacanian approach to philosophy and Ludwig Wittgenstein's intervention into philosophy. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton Preaches - The deadly belief in conspiracy theories is a type of a belief in the satanic conspiracy that there is life in the law - which kills. The evangelical religion and its key theologian promote this lie as the cure which causes many to miss the true cure.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.