Forging Ploughshares

Matt, Brian, Jim, David, Jonathan, Matthew, Brent, and Paul continue discussion on the cosmic power of Christ as defeat of the universal psychoanalytic/individual sickness and the corporate powers. Freud, Lacan and Žižek illustrate Paul's point in Eph. 2: the human disease is imagining it has life and power when it only has the power of death and violence. The grace and inheritance of Christ is a unifying defeat of this divisiveness.

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Paul Axton preaches - No single part of personhood is a sufficient beginning point, but only the fullness of Trinitarian reality can encapsulate the ground for reason, cognition, and experience. This is the center of the Eastern theology of Sergius Bulgakov, which points to a recovery of personhood as the experience of God as making personhood a possibility.

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Matthew, Jonathan, Brian, David, Brent, and Paul discuss the cosmic image of Christ in Ephesians 2, and humankinds incorporation into the divine image, and the simultaneous picture of evil, as the refusal of this reality. Evil arises, in this picture, as the reification or refusal of the cosmic person and the turn to the finite and impersonal (language, law, the symbolic) as the controlling factor of the self. 

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Paul Axton preaches - Christ exposes the history of murder and the exposure, as in the case of Daniel Ellsberg's exposure of the Pentagon Papers and the Doomsday Machine and Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian exposing nihilistic violence, is the first step in confronting evil. The Gospel, by definition, opposes the violence embedded in the human heart. 

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Matthew, Jonathan, Brent, Matt, Brian, Jim, and Paul discuss the psychoanalytic reality of peace and its connection to cosmic peace through the reign of Christ as expressed in Ephesians 1 & 2. Paul introduces Ephesians 2 and the psychoanalytic reality of peace and then the implications of chapter 1 of Ephesians and the subduing of the powers as a practical reality is discussed.

Paul Axton preaches - Recognition of the Abba relationship to God frees from slavery to the law, as the relationship sealed by the Spirit through the Son is a new form of subjectivity. The story of Christ lifts up every human story and every father/child relationship, giving it a depth of meaning and significance.

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Paul Axton preaches - The explanation of the death of Christ, the divine dying in the human, is explained through the created and uncreated aspects of Wisdom (as in the theology of Sergius Bulgakov). This explanation includes how it is that salvation in dying and resurrection is imparted to all through participation (divinization) - the divinization of Christ in which all participate.

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Brent, David, Matt, Matthew, Jonathan, Jim, and Paul discuss the two-fold economy found in Gnosticism/nominalism and in Paul's summing up as described in Irenaeus' doctrine of recapitulation. Participation in Christ as described in recapitulation constitutes the economy that binds together the various New Testament descriptions of being "adopted," being "in Christ," or being "in his likeness."

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Paul Axton preaches - God is working through all peoples, cultures and religions, as is demonstrated in the recent mass movements of Muslims coming to Christ. But this does not entail relinquishing the critical faculty of thought, as is often the case with Zen Buddhism. 

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Jonathan, Brent, Matt, and Paul discuss the implications of taking Ephesians as central to the Pauline corpus and discuss both recapitulation and Christus Victor as Paul's understanding of atonment in Ephesians.

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