Episodes
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Sermon: The Scandal of the Cross Exposing the Scandal of Satan
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
The serpent points to a false desire, sin points to a false understanding of the law, and the idol poses a false god, which in each instance serves as an obstacle to what it promises, giving rise to the obstacle cause of desire. Christ exposes this scandalous lie, but Christ and the cross become a scandal or a stone of stumbling for those who continue to believe the lie, or he is the chief corner stone of a new form of worship for those who believe this truth.
(Sign up for the course, The Theology of Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Wood. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The course will run from 2024/3/25–2024/5/17 and will meet on Saturdays at 9am central time.)
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Monday Mar 18, 2024
Reflections On Our Conversation With Jordan Wood and His Class for PBI
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Matt and Paul discuss key points raised by Jordan Wood and his upcoming class for PBI concerning Hegel, concerning the depth of theosis, and the meaning of being subject to fire in a universal understanding of Christianity.
(Sign up for the course, The Theology of Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Wood. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The course will run from 2024/3/25–2024/5/17 and will meet on Saturdays.)
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Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Jordan Wood on the PBI Course: The Theology of Maximus The Confessor
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Paul and Matt discuss with Jordan the upcoming course on Maximus, discussing Christ as the foundation of a reason bringing together the antinomies (or limits of reason) pointed out by Kant, accounted for in the post-Kantians and incorporated into Bulgakov's sophiology, and Jordan suggests an alternative reading of Hegel in which he is an orthodox Christian working out a form of thought on the order of Maximus.
(Sign up for the course, The Theology of Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Wood. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings. The course will run from 2024/3/25–2024/5/17 and will meet on Saturdays at 9am central time.)
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Monday Mar 11, 2024
The Defeat of the Covenant with Death in Romans 9-11
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Jim, Jeff, Brian, and Paul discuss Paul's use of Isaiah's picture of the covenant with death, and universal deliverance and salvation, as an alternative reading to Romans 10-11, as opposed to justification theory.
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Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Romans 9-11: Double Predestination and Christian Zionism
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Jeff, Jim, Brian, and Paul discuss the role of the false teacher in Romans 9-11, Douglas Campbell's idea that works of the law was a problem which occurred only with the advent of Christianity, and the role of Christian Zionism and anti-Semitism in justification theory.
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Monday Mar 04, 2024
The Reconstitution of the Subject From Romans 7 to Romans 8
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Jeff, Jim, David, Brian, and Paul compare and contrast the Human Subject of chapter 7 and the reconstituted Subject of Romans chapter 8.
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Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Romans 7: The Split Within as the Sickness Unto Death
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Jim, Jeff, Brian, David, and Paul discuss Romans chapter 7 as providing a diagnosis of the human disease, in which the self is divided against itself. In Calvinism and justification theory this is presumed to be the normal Christian life, but this is Paul's picture of the human disease.
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Monday Feb 26, 2024
Does Baptism Make an Ontological Difference?
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
In the conclusion to our discussion of Romans 6, Matt, Jim, Brian, David and Paul discuss the question as to how to describe the difference in the Christian life. God's universal plan of salvation and the reality of evil create the question whether there is an ontological distinction with those in Christ.
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Saturday Feb 24, 2024
The Dialectic of the Law Displaced in Being Joined to the Body of Christ
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Jim, David, Brian, Matthew, Jonathan, Matt, and Paul discuss how the law functions as a deep grammar giving rise to the antinomies of a dialectic which functions as an end in itself. Romans 6 describes baptism as the cure to this dialectical antagonism by being joined to the body of Christ in baptism. Here the sign no longer floats free of the signified.
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Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Jeff, Matt, Brian, Jon, David, and Paul discuss Louis Martyn's depiction of the Galatian heresy as captivity to the elementary principles as this can be equated with Douglas Campbell's picture of the false teacher, and how conversion pertains to mind transformation through deliverance from this cosmos through Christ as fundamental reason.
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