Episodes
2 hours ago
2 hours ago
The logic of Christ defeats the necessary logic surrounding death, in which life is fragmented and sequential in its beginning and end, but Christ's defeat of death introduces an order in which life reigns over death, and in this logic the life of Christ is an eternal reality, bringing together time and eternity, God and incarnation in a reciprocal relation in which beginning and end are united.
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6 days ago
6 days ago
In this conclusion to part 4, Jordan takes on the scholastic notion that creation and incarnation are not a necessity, suggesting that such a notion leaves us with no particular understanding of God or his love.
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Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Sermon: The Real World Work of Christ Versus Penal Substitution
Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Saturday Oct 26, 2024
The Gospel of John depicts a real world deliverance from fear, real world healing from sin and slavery, and this is captured in John's deployment of Passover and treatment of Isaiah and the Suffering Servant, in which human evil (not God) results in his suffering and God brings mercy and healing from out of his oppression. This stands in contrast to Calvin's depiction of God punishing Jesus because he is identified with the Azazel Goat, identifying him with sin and, in many Calvinist's view, hating Christ.
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Monday Oct 21, 2024
Jordan Wood on Reciprocal Causality in Maximus
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
The death of Christ encompasses all dying and the life of Christ encompasses all of life, so that every individual true beginning and end is to be found in Christ.
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Saturday Oct 19, 2024
Sermon: The Work of Christ and the Two Goats of Yom Kippur
Saturday Oct 19, 2024
Saturday Oct 19, 2024
Yom Kippur, the sacrifice of the Yahweh Goat and the sending of the Azazel Goat into the Abyss is the primary holy day for understanding the work of Christ. Clearly dividing and understanding the work of each goat arrives at a different meaning then those theories (like Calvin's) which fuse the work of the goats. Christ's life and death, like that of the Yahweh Goat, cleanses from sin, and the result of this cleansing is an end of exile and Sheol (the place of exile).
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Monday Oct 14, 2024
Jordan Wood On Maximus: The End is the Beginning as Judgment and Deliverance
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Jordan Daniel Wood explains how Maximus' notion of the end is the beginning constitutes an understanding of salvation that encompasses and goes beyond legal understandings or ideas of Christus Victor.
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Saturday Oct 12, 2024
Sermon: Jesus Death as the Exposure of Sacrificial Religion
Saturday Oct 12, 2024
Saturday Oct 12, 2024
Christ connects to himself a long anti-sacrificial tradition in the prophets, connecting sacrifice with disobedience and violence, and not instituted by God. Christ sees himself as exposing the history of murder and murderous religion, but to reduce Christ to a propitiating sacrifice erases this central part of his message.
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Monday Oct 07, 2024
Ryan Hemmer - The Question of Culture employing Ricoeur, Freud and Girard
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
In this repeat episode, Ryan Hemmer explains the significance of Paul Ricoeur, René Girard, and Sigmund Freud, in regard to the role of culture. What role for evil and desire or goodness and deity in language and culture?
To register for the upcoming class on René Girard with Michael Hardin, Rene Girard and Nonviolent Atonement, go to https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The Course will run from the second week of October to the first week in December.)
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Saturday Oct 05, 2024
Sermon: The Violence of the Old Testament as Spiritual Allegory
Saturday Oct 05, 2024
Saturday Oct 05, 2024
In Galatians, Paul explains that Christians are to read the law allegorically for their edification and to cling to the law for interpreting Christ is to continue to be enslaved by the elementary principles. As Origen explains, to cling to the violence and lust of the law by reading literally and historically rather than applying spiritually is to continue in enslavement to lust, idolatry, and violence.
To register for the upcoming class on René Girard with Michael Hardin, Rene Girard and Nonviolent Atonement, go to https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The Course will run from the second week of October to the first week in December.)
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Monday Sep 30, 2024
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Here is a repeat of an earlier podcast on Girard and Peter Berger. Jonathan, Matt, Brian, Brent, and Paul discuss Ephesians 4-5 and the singular lie exposed by Christ creating entry into love. The function of a hostile lie in the reification of culture and religion, as in the work of Peter Berger and Rene Girard, and the necessity of this lies exposure so as to be "rooted and grounded in love" is discussed.
(To register for the upcoming class on René Girard with Michael Hardin, Rene Girard and Nonviolent Atonement, go to https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The Course will run from the second week of October to the first week in December.)
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