Forging Ploughshares

Nov 04 2024 849 ep. 40 mins 33
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Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

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Jordan Wood on Maximus' Treatment of Scripture

Nov 04 2024 60 mins  
Maximus, unlike N. T. Wright or Peter Enns but like Origen and the Apostles, equates Scripture with the body, soul, and spirit of Christ, treating the inspiration of Scripture as continuing to occur through Christ, and not through the letter. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: The Defeat of Death as Realization of Reciprocity in Christ

Nov 02 2024 32 mins  
The logic of Christ defeats the necessary logic surrounding death, in which life is fragmented and sequential in its beginning and end, but Christ's defeat of death introduces an order in which life reigns over death, and in this logic the life of Christ is an eternal reality, bringing together time and eternity, God and incarnation in a reciprocal relation in which beginning and e

Jordan Daniel Wood on the Necessity of Creation, Incarnation, and Love

Oct 28 2024 55 mins  
In this conclusion to part 4, Jordan takes on the scholastic notion that creation and incarnation are not a necessity, suggesting that such a notion leaves us with no particular understanding of God or his love. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: The Real World Work of Christ Versus Penal Substitution

Oct 26 2024 28 mins  
The Gospel of John depicts a real world deliverance from fear, real world healing from sin and slavery, and this is captured in John's deployment of Passover and treatment of Isaiah and the Suffering Servant, in which human evil (not God) results in his suffering and God brings mercy and healing from out of his oppression. This stands in contrast to Calvin's depiction of God punish

Jordan Wood on Reciprocal Causality in Maximus

Oct 21 2024 65 mins  
The death of Christ encompasses all dying and the life of Christ encompasses all of life, so that every individual true beginning and end is to be found in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: The Work of Christ and the Two Goats of Yom Kippur

Oct 19 2024 24 mins  
Yom Kippur, the sacrifice of the Yahweh Goat and the sending of the Azazel Goat into the Abyss is the primary holy day for understanding the work of Christ. Clearly dividing and understanding the work of each goat arrives at a different meaning then those theories (like Calvin's) which fuse the work of the goats. Christ's life and death, like that of the Yahweh Goat, cleanses from

Jordan Wood On Maximus: The End is the Beginning as Judgment and Deliverance

Oct 14 2024 64 mins  
Jordan Daniel Wood explains how Maximus' notion of the end is the beginning constitutes an understanding of salvation that encompasses and goes beyond legal understandings or ideas of Christus Victor. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: Jesus Death as the Exposure of Sacrificial Religion

Oct 12 2024 27 mins  
Christ connects to himself a long anti-sacrificial tradition in the prophets, connecting sacrifice with disobedience and violence, and not instituted by God. Christ sees himself as exposing the history of murder and murderous religion, but to reduce Christ to a propitiating sacrifice erases this central part of his message. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to s

Ryan Hemmer - The Question of Culture employing Ricoeur, Freud and Girard

Oct 07 2024 26 mins  
In this repeat episode, Ryan Hemmer explains the significance of Paul Ricoeur, René Girard, and Sigmund Freud, in regard to the role of culture. What role for evil and desire or goodness and deity in language and culture? To register for the upcoming class on René Girard with Michael Hardin, Rene Girard and Nonviolent Atonement, go to https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings

Sermon: The Violence of the Old Testament as Spiritual Allegory

Oct 05 2024 28 mins  
In Galatians, Paul explains that Christians are to read the law allegorically for their edification and to cling to the law for interpreting Christ is to continue to be enslaved by the elementary principles. As Origen explains, to cling to the violence and lust of the law by reading literally and historically rather than applying spiritually is to continue in enslavement to lust, i