Forging Ploughshares

In this first PBI discussion on the Holy Spirit Dan, Matt, Robb, Justin, David, and Paul discuss Sarah Coakley's and Jürgen Moltmann's work on the Holy Spirit as it pertains to the sexual crisis and the subordination of the Spirit in the scholastic approach to the Trinity. 

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Paul Axton preaches - Herod slaughters the innocent children of Bethlehem in an attempt to foreshorten the state mandated murder accomplished under Pilate. His lying pretense to find and worship the Messiah gives us a working principle on how to consider the desire of government to worship Christ as King. 

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Paul Axton Preaches - In Greek thought, represented in Plato's allegory of the cave, the material world is but a realm of shadows blocking out the sun (representative of transcendent truth), so that which is of the womb/cave is unreal and truth is thought to abide in the transcendent forms. The Virgin Birth finds the absolute, the sun, the equivalent of the the forms, in the womb.

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In this PBI discussion of the final chapter of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Allan, Tim, Matt, Nathan, Rob, David, and Paul compare and contrast desire versus hope, the frustration of life in the imaginary with life in Christ, and the body of death with life in the Spirit. 

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Paul Axton Preaches - The shattering of the idols of a settled notion of God in Christ opens us to the world as a reflection of his activity and presence in human relationships and interdependence with the world.

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In this PBI discussion of chapter 9 of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, Allan, Tim, Matt, Nathan, Thomas, Trenton, Rob, and Paul discuss the three part structure of the human subject as revolving around a deception. Calvin's is taken as an example of one who misses the deception and in doing so believes the lie of sin, demonstrated in the failed treatment of baptism, the confrontation and resolution to the lie. 

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Paul Axton Preaches - The name Abba names and sums up the work of Christ in establishing God's Lordship over every aspect of the world, including all that it means to be human and it simultaneously displaces the "father problem" enslaving human-kind. 

In this PBI discussion Paul and Allan review Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation (chapters 3-7), explaining key points through philosophical thinkers and their impact on theology.

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Paul Axton Preaches - A prayerful attitude allowing the for the work of the Holy Spirit engenders a new emotional life and alternative character summed up in a continual thanksgiving.

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Matt, Allan, and Paul continue discussion of Paul Axton's book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, expanding upon the link between Romans 7 and the secular, discerning the dual sense in which every age may manifest its own unique characteristics with its own leading personalities but every age shares in the same corporate deception.

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