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Jacques Ellul : interpretive essays / edited by Clifford G. Christians and Jay M. Van Hook.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1981.Description: xiii, 336 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0252008901
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Jacques Ellul.LOC classification:
  • BX4827.E5 J3 1981
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Introduction: Creative misuses of Jacques Ellul / Martin E. Marty -- Part 1: Ellul's intellectual roots. Marx in the social thought of Jacques Ellul / David C. Menninger -- Barth's influence on Jacques Ellul / Geoffrey W. Bromiley -- Ellul and Kierkegaard: closer than brothers / Vernard Eller -- Part 2: Sociopolitical issues. The uncertain Hobbesian: Ellul's dialogue with the Sovereign and the tradition of French politics / John L. Stanley -- Technology and power: technique as a mode of understanding modernity / C. George Benello -- Mass communications as propaganda in technological societies / Michael R. Real -- The politics of man, the politics of God, and the politics of freedom / Jay M. Van Hook -- Ellul on solution: an alternative but no prophecy / Clifford G. Christmas -- Part 3: Ethics and theology. Discontinuity in the ethics of Jacques Ellul / Gene Outka -- A philosophical critique of Ellul on natural law / Arthur F. Holmes -- Violence / Kenneth Konyndyk -- The mythic meaning of the city / David L. Clark -- Epilogue: On dialectic / Jacques Ellul.
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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 261.8 C555J (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 049169

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [309]-328.

Introduction: Creative misuses of Jacques Ellul / Martin E. Marty -- Part 1: Ellul's intellectual roots. Marx in the social thought of Jacques Ellul / David C. Menninger -- Barth's influence on Jacques Ellul / Geoffrey W. Bromiley -- Ellul and Kierkegaard: closer than brothers / Vernard Eller -- Part 2: Sociopolitical issues. The uncertain Hobbesian: Ellul's dialogue with the Sovereign and the tradition of French politics / John L. Stanley -- Technology and power: technique as a mode of understanding modernity / C. George Benello -- Mass communications as propaganda in technological societies / Michael R. Real -- The politics of man, the politics of God, and the politics of freedom / Jay M. Van Hook -- Ellul on solution: an alternative but no prophecy / Clifford G. Christmas -- Part 3: Ethics and theology. Discontinuity in the ethics of Jacques Ellul / Gene Outka -- A philosophical critique of Ellul on natural law / Arthur F. Holmes -- Violence / Kenneth Konyndyk -- The mythic meaning of the city / David L. Clark -- Epilogue: On dialectic / Jacques Ellul.

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