Paul Axton Preaches: The Trump administration is filled with devout Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians, and yet the religion on display in this administration and its supporters aligns with an evil cruelty, worse than atheistic nihilism, which can only be countered by a recovery of the metaphysical seriousness of God revealed in Christ.

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Brian Sartor, through long engagement with Douglas Campbell's picture of the false teacher Paul is deconstructing in Romans 1:18ff, broadens this understanding to the Bible and this cultural moment to suggest Paul is deconstructing the common foundation shared by the world.

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Paul Axton preaches: Romans 7:7ff presents Paul's version of the defeat of sin, which is a deconstruction of the serpent or the devil and the law, and a victory over the dynamics of a deception.

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Jonathan Heaps describes to Paul and Brad the rise among Catholics attempting to take control of government and governmental institutions and like Chad Pecknold, to be the voice for violence in this administration.

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Paul Axton preaches: The first obligation of the church is to be the church, to be Christian, and not as the MAGA New Right envisions through regime change, revolutionizing the judiciary, and creating a sovereign power in Trump.

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Brad and Paul discuss the MAGA New Right, and describe the upcoming course on sin and salvation, touching upon the apocalyptic new hermeneutic involved in a nonviolent reading of God and atonement. The course will run from the third week of October to the second week of December. Sign up here https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/schedule.

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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

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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.

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