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by Paul Axton
Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
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- 3 days ago1h 6m
Anthony Bartlett on the Rise of Structuralism and Deconstruction as They Relate to the Logos
Anthony Bartlett traces the impact of the theory of Ferdinand de Saussure and Levi Strauss on the rise of structuralism and the deconstruction of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and René Girard, giving rise to a clear split between two notions of Logos. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 5 days ago30 min
Sermon: The Preaching of the Cross as Dialectical Wisdom
Paul Axton preaches: In Corinthians Paul contrasts human and divine wisdom and pictures the cross as the divide between the two, focusing on the absolute transcendence and immanence of Christ, not as a dualism, but as synthesizing these seeming antinomies, which is the continued project of the Christian life in theosis. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 1 weeks ago1h 2m
Desmond's Metaxology as an Extension of Bulgakov's Sophiology
Brad and Paul discuss the convergence of the work of William Desmond with that of Sergius Bulgakov, noting that Desmond's work can be read as on a continuum through Maximus, Hegel, and Bulgakov, which is perhaps the most serious contemporary attempt to think out philosophically and theologically the implications of the Gospel. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 1 weeks ago31 min
Sermon: The Relation Between Natural Revelation and the Logos
Paul Axton preaches: Is the analogia entis the anti-Christ or is there the possibility of a renewed natural theology and metaphysics? If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 2 weeks ago59 min
A Comparison and Contrast of William Desmond and René Girard
Brad and Paul discuss the anti-metaphysical stance of René Girard as compared to William Desmond's renewal of metaphysics, with each bringing a necessary critique to modern metaphysics and surpassing this metaphysic in two needed but perhaps contrasting understandings. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 2 weeks ago39 min
Sermon: The Inevitable Process of Spiritual Sickness in the First Adam to Being Found in the Second Adam
Paul Axton preaches: Behind this sermon on the fall and summing up of all things in Christ, including everything about the first Adam, is the approach to metaphysics found in William Desmond and Anthony Bartlett. The orientation of a sick metaphysics (Girard and Bartlett) provides the possibility of redemption or the realization of the fulness of metaphysics (Desmond), or the synthesis found in Christ. From Spiritual Sickness to Divinization Become a Patron!
- 3 weeks ago1h 5m
Anthony Bartlett on the Significance of Martin Heidegger
Anthony Bartlett explains Heidegger's turn to language in place of a philosophical metaphysics, and locates language as the origin integral to being and the essential nature of violence. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 3 weeks ago32 min
Sermon: The Dialectic of Apokatastasis and Recapitulation
Paul Axton preaches: This sermon traces universal restoration (apokatastasis) and recapitulation, in the way this transforms human thought in the explanation of Origen, Maximus and Eriugena, and illustrated in the case of Peter. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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