Forging Ploughshares

Paul lays out his understanding of why Christ died and how His death can be described in terms of a change of subjectivity.

I think what we see God getting satisfaction out of, we do, too. In a very perverse way.

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Paul and Frank continue their discussion on communion. This episode covers “real presence” and the meaning of “eating” and “drinking” the flesh and blood of Jesus. Rather than dwelling on the theoretical, they dive right into a big-picture view of the Gospel of John by going through the whole story to understand what Jesus meant when He gave that strange commandment.

Sources Cited:

• Scott Hahn’s talk
• Alexander Campbell’s article

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Paul continues his study of I John.

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The universal notion of sacrifice and the biblical departure from this system in the Old Testament and in the sacrifice of Christ.

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Ethics and belief must be brought together in the ethic of love. To not bring them together results in ideology – a religion without content.

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The equation of hope/love, self-sacrifice/love, righteousness/love, recognizing Jesus/love. All of these are needed to arrive at a notion of agape love.

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The Christian ethic begins by putting our security in the hands of God. Evil arises because we would secure ourselves and this is the ground of personal and corporate evil.

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Modern apologetics would presume to be able to prove God through the traditional arguments for God. Paul proposes holistic witness as an alternative.

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How we define evil will be determinative of how we understand God. We know God not on the basis of a law or tradition as with the Friends of Job but through Christ. As we confront and challenge evil, that is precisely (in the thinking of Bonhoeffer) where God meets us.

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Paul and Jonathan Totty talk about Kierkegaard’s pseudonym Johannes Climacus, and how he travels a road very similar to Zizek and Lacan. The difference of course is that Kierkegaard moves beyond Climacus to a full blown Christianity. The question is if his criticism of Hegelian Christians as falling short applies to the contemporary scence.

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