Jacques Ellul

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born

in Bordeaux, France

January 06, 1912

died

May 19, 1994

gender

male

website

http://www.ellul.org

genre

Religion & Spirituality, Technology, Anarchism

influences

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Baptised Catholic, Ellul became an atheist and Marxist at 19, and a Christian of the Reformed Church at 22. During his Marxist days, he was a member of the French Communist Party. During World War II, he fought with the French Underground against the Nazi occupation of France.

Educated at the Universities of Bordeaux and Paris, he taught Sociology and the History of Law at the Universities of Strausbourg and Montpellier. In 1946 he returned to Bordeaux where he lived, wrote, served as Mayor, and taught until his death in 1994.

In the 40 books and hundreds of articles Ellul wrote in his lifetime, his dominant theme was always the threat to human freedom posed by modern technology. His tenor and methodology is objective and scholarly, and the p...more

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	Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, Robert K. Merton (Introduction) 4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 213 ratings — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anarchy and Christianity by Jacques Ellul, Geoffrey William Bromiley (Translator) 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Subversion of Christianity by Jacques Ellul, Geoffrey William Bromiley (Translator) 4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Presence of the Kingdom by Jacques Ellul, Daniel B. Clendenin (Introduction), William Stringfellow (Foreword) 4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1948	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Meaning of the City 4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Humiliation of the Word by Jacques Ellul, Joyce Main Hanks (Translator) 4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Politics of God and the Politics of Man by Jacques Ellul, Geoffrey Bromiley (Translator) 4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violence: Reflections From A Christian Perspective 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes by Jacques Ellul, Joyce M. Hanks (Translator) 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.”
― Jacques Ellul

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“Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.”
― Jacques Ellul

tags: dystopia, technique

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“No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.”
― Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity

tags: comforting, god, theology

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