Forging Ploughshares

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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Paul continues his explanation of Romans 13.

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Paul’s study in I John continues, this time about practicing righteousness and what it means to be born again.

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Paul explains the disastrous consequences in the 20th Century brought about in part by the role modern philosophy of religion played.

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Paul addresses how the Christian should respond to evil government in Romans 13.

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