Forging Ploughshares

Paul and Jonathan Totty discuss the meaning of the death of Christ in light of the psychoanalytic reading of Paul (the Apostle), as described in Paul’s book.

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By not recognizing Paul’s description of the perverse there is a “Christianity” that remains perverse to its core. Salvation is freedom from both perversion and agonism and this alternative subjectivity is salvation. The move from one form of subject to the other as a description of salvation offers an alternative to atonement theories focused on the law.

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In this segment of Practicing Peace, Hayden chats with Dr. Stephen Chapman of Duke University about theological interpretation of Scripture and Old Testament violence.

In order for us to be clear about the gospel and clear about our confession of Jesus Christ we also need to be clear-eyed about violence. ~Stephen Chapman

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Paul explains how the cross addresses evil.

We understand the nature of evil in and through the person and work of Jesus Christ, which is not normally the way this is done. Usually when we talk about Christ we don’t bring in the issue of evil. What we would bring in is other issues like the problem of sin. So, evil is usually reserved in a college classroom for something like apologetics—and in an apologetics course you never bring in the cross of Christ. You may think “that’s a travesty.” That’s the travesty of modern evangelicalism…

There is a Christianity, unfortunately, that makes itself irrelevant by colluding with the evil of the world. I’m not sure that we should continue to call it Christianity, but I’m not going to be the one to say, “Let’s stop using that word.” But where do we see it? We see it in nationalism, a Christianity coopted by the state…capitalism: a Christianity that gives itself over to notions of consumption and desire…or maybe just a commitment to do evil on a personal level so that good may abound. In someway, a Christianity that does not recognize the problem of evil and how the cross addresses it is one which makes itself irrelevant.

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A comparison of Ro. 7:7ff – which amounts to an empty word from nowhere with Ro. 8:26-27 which describes an infinite depth of communication.

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Paul compares and contrasts the certainty we would attain to and the certainty given in Christ.

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Paul and Jesse Schrader discuss the anthropology of Ratzinger and Hauerwas, covering important differences and misunderstandings.

In talking about the topic of relativism: in the church being a separate community you will most certainly confront relativism. Because your only line of defense against relativism is not appealing to reason or philosophical argument. Instead, you are insisting that truth is something that is embodied—there is a merger there.

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A picture of Christian salvation in terms of therapy or deliverance from systemic deception and the destruction this entails.

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Jonathan Totty describes the importance of Irenaeus as an example of a theological understanding for the Church rather than the academy.

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Paul explains how we can learn from the atheists to reject a certain understanding of God and thus come to know God as He truly is.

Is there a God we need to refuse as we come to the God revealed in Christ? Is, in fact, our conception of God, inasmuch as it is not shaped by the person and work of Christ, likely to stand in the way of a relationship to who God really is? Let me state it, overstate it perhaps, this way: do we need to pass through a kind of atheism? To refuse the belief in a certain understanding of God that we might recognize the God of the Bible?

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