Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton continues his exploration of Yukio Mishima, primarily working with his autobiographical novel Confessions of a Mask. Paul describes the turn away from love to self-destruction as a moral masochism in service to the law.

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Paul Axton preaches on whether faith is subjective or objective.

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Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty talk about how evil is not a problem for Aquinas and becomes a problem only with the shift taking place in in his lifetime.

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Paul Axton continues his use of Japan to illustrate his theological understanding. Yukio Mishima explains his justification for his traditional suicide in language that gets at the human struggle at its most basic level and which the New Testament describes as the law of sin and death.

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Paul Axton begins to trace the origins of his discovery of dialectic in orientalism, Tadanobu Tsunoda, and Takeo Doi.

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Paul concludes his study in Hebrews.

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Jonathan Totty interviews Paul Axton on his experience in Japan. Paul describes why and how he ended up doing an analysis of psychoanalytic readings of Paul as a result of his experience.

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As we come to the conclusion of Hebrews in chapter 13 we examine the economy the book is describing in terms of Honor and Shame. Not to say this is some historical artifact but is a universal truth about the way shame and honor are addressed in salvation.

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The temple as microcosmos an mirror of heaven emphasizes the immanence and transcendence of God respectively. Christ resolves this tension as true temple. At the same time the work of Christ and the the nature of God are apprehended against this background.

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Persecution, hostility toward God, and suffering are a futility and evil, but even these endured rightly can be transformed into a discipline.

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