Episodes
Saturday May 03, 2025
Sermon: The Obligation of Christology
Saturday May 03, 2025
Saturday May 03, 2025
Paul Axton preaches: This sermon looks at the radical New Testament depiction of Christ and its implications, and the failure to fully acknowledge this understanding in various heresies or simply the tendency to delimit the discussion such that it falls shore of acknowledging the story of Jesus is the story of God.
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Monday Apr 28, 2025
Jonathan Totty on the Upcoming Course on Christology in Colossians
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Paul and Jonathan Totty discuss the upcoming class on Colossians and Christology, which will utilize the historical development of Christology detailed by Rowan Williams, in arriving at an applied and practical understanding of the person and work of Christ.
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Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Sermon: A Historical-Theological Understanding of the Resurrection
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Paul Axton preaches: Wittgenstein, Hegel, and Moltmann unite in describing the resurrection as opening up the life of Christ as the story of God, and the central interpretive key of faith.
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Monday Apr 21, 2025
Julia Kristeva and Anselm's Ontological Argument
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Paul and Jim look at the ontological argument as an example of the basic human impetus to secure the self, to gain being, in and through language. The work of the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva explains this basic human drive and how the cross breaks open this narcissistic self to become open to others and community.
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Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Sermon: Why Christ Died
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Paul Axton preaches: The theological reason for the death of Christ should begin with the historical reality of what killed him and what he defeated in his death and resurrection; namely Israel, Rome, the law, and the principalities and powers behind the reification of death and law.
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Monday Apr 14, 2025
David Cayley on Ivan Illich
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
The Canadian broadcaster David Cayley describes his groundbreaking interviews with the thinker and theologian Ivan Illich, in which Illich describes how it is the very best, the church, became the very worst, in modernity.
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Saturday Apr 12, 2025
Saturday Apr 12, 2025
Paul Axton Preaches: Romans 3:25 is a key verse in determining Christ's relationship to the Temple. Is he a sacrifice of atonement to be fit into the Temple and Law, or is he the (hilasterion) Mercy Seat providing access to revelation of righteousness which is salvation?
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Monday Apr 07, 2025
James Alison on Marriage, Divorce, and Gender
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
In part 2 of Brad and Paul's conversation with the theologian James Alison, the role of the church in marriage, divorce and the role of Church law are discussed especially as it relates to issues of gender and homosexuality.
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Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Sermon: The Nonviolence of Christ as the Final and Full Revelation of God
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Paul Axton preaches: What Paul calls the ministry of death, is accentuated and exposed in the murder of Jesus, due to Jesus teaching and action in the Temple. The temple deals in the death of animals, which did not touch upon the deadly attitude of the human heart, and Jewish response to his interruption of the killing is the motive for killing Jesus bring this ministry of death to an end.
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Monday Mar 31, 2025
James Alison On Shame and the Sexual Crisis in the Church
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Brad and Paul interview the Girardian theologian James Alison concerning the pastoral and practical application of Girard, and how this relates to the sexual crisis in Catholicism.
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