Sinopsis
Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
Episodios
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Sermon - Delivered from the Delusion of Evangelicalism and Politics
31/08/2019 Duración: 23minPaul Axton preaches: Evangelicalism reproduces forms of idolatrous religion because it is of the same mold. We are no longer deceived and we can name this idol. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sharon and Paul discuss Richard Rohr
27/08/2019 Duración: 44minRichard Rohr's depiction of the Universal Christ is providing an answer to a generational disaffection from Evangelicalism. Paul Axton and Sharon Klingemann discuss his work. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - A Place for Deconstruction
24/08/2019 Duración: 22minPaul Axton preaches: Religion and thought is world preserving in comparison to Christianity which is world deconstructing. The revolution we are called to be part of is world deconstruction. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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What is Salvation and How does it Connect to Religion?
19/08/2019 Duración: 22minPaul Axton explains that the common approach to religion - Pluralist, Inclusivist, Exclusivist - fails to understand the specificity of salvation in each religion and Christianity in particular. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - Christian Racism?
17/08/2019 Duración: 24minPaul Axton preaches: The election of Donald Trump and evangelical support for Trump is a living proof that white supremacy is alive and well, not in spite of, but because of evangelical Christians. Is a faith that requires oppression and exclusion, which explicitly tolerates and promotes white supremacy, “Christianity"? Isn’t this, as Douglas would have it, “the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels?” If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - The Foundation of Ethics
10/08/2019 Duración: 28minPaul Axton preaches: We live in a time in which ethics has been separated out from the Christian story so that people do not hesitate to embrace the ethic of the culture rather than the ethic of love. – keeping the foreigners at bay, putting children in cages, making America Great Again at the expense of Christian ethics. The question arises as to the ground of ethics and especially Christian ethics. Is our ethics grounded in love? And what does this mean? If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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A Comparison of Peter Berger and Mircea Eliade
05/08/2019In this podcast, Paul Axton compares the work of Mircea Eliade, the father of religious studies, and Peter Berger, the father of the notion of the social construction of reality, so as to arrive at a biblical understanding of religion. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - Naming the Idol of Capitalism Through the Koinonia
03/08/2019 Duración: 28minPaul Axton preaches: The dividing wall of hostility between Jew and Gentile is broken down in Christ, and the removal of this barrier is, for Paul, the archetype of salvation. Money shared by Gentiles and accepted by Jews is the token of its accomplishment. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Seeking Peace in Jerusalem with Aaron Woods
29/07/2019 Duración: 45minIn this discussion Aaron Woods describes his work in Jerusalem teaching peace to Muslim children in a Christian school. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - Abundant Life
27/07/2019 Duración: 24minPaul Axton preaches: The resurrection connects us to creation, it exposes the lie of death as an escape, it connects us to embodiment, it frees us from the valuation and ethical system of culture, it connects us to the deep love of others and the comfort of that love, it connects us to history and salvation history – we are part of this history. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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The Symptom of The Serial Killer and Every Son of Adam Addressed in Christ
22/07/2019 Duración: 39minPaul Axton concludes the series on various ways of engineering death in orientalism, occidentalism, and particular modes of enculturation the extreme form of sickness - the serial killer or the homicidal and genocidal tendency - by linking to a universal construct addressed in the death of Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - The Sting of Death
20/07/2019 Duración: 22minPaul Axton preaches: Is it the sting of sin is death or is it the sting of death is sin? Our tendency to misread this passage points to our tendency to miss what Christ saves us from. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Understanding the Psychology and Culture of Death
15/07/2019 Duración: 26minPaul Axton illustrates the way in which death is engineered into the purpose of life and culture in this analysis of Takeo Doi. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - The Sickness Unto Death Cured from Rightly Conceiving the Resurrection
13/07/2019 Duración: 26minPaul Axton preaches: The "sickness unto death” is despair at not having the self. Resurrection is the ultimate cure of this sickness – but rightly conceiving of the resurrection we can begin to conquer this despair now. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Freud Goes to Japan
08/07/2019 Duración: 25minPaul Axton traces the manner in which Freud was taken up in Japan and the deep resonance between his theory and a Japanese sensibility. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - The Apocalyptic Versus Contractual Christianity
06/07/2019 Duración: 23minPaul Axton preaches: The Corinthians, the evangelicals, the Roman Catholics, presume there is a naturally given recognition of good and evil in human wisdom. This "wisdom" is not the basis for Christianity but what Christ destroys. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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The Orient of the Mind
01/07/2019 Duración: 28minPaul Axton explains that orientalism is not simply academic or nationalistic but is intimately tied to psychology and human interiority. Japanese used the work of Sigmund Freud, very much an orientalist, so as to manufacture an identity to ward off and reverse the denigrating assessments of the West. Japanese psychologists and texts literally reverse Freud and his valuation system and this reversal has become a key part of the Japanese search for identity. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - Resurrection as a Defeat of the Power of Sin and Death
29/06/2019 Duración: 27minPaul Axton preaches that the apostle Paul offers no room for dualism – for the notion that material reality is unreal and that it is only the soul that goes to heaven. This is the lie that deludes. It is this way of dividing up the world defeated in resurrection. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Sermon - Focus on The Resurrection as an Alternative Christianity
24/06/2019 Duración: 26minTo make the point that putting resurrection in the center constitutes an alternative Christianity, Paul Axton in this sermon sums up a few key ways in which a different emphasis on resurrection completely alters key doctrines. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
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Orientalism II
17/06/2019 Duración: 28minPaul Axton discusses identity through difference illustrated in Orientalism Part II. If Japan is a mud swamp which has successfully warded off Christianity (which it is and has for the most part), it is by virtue of the same power which has shaped Christianity so as to fit modern Western identity. This is an understanding defeated by a right understanding of sin as an orientation to death defeated in resurrection. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound