TY - BOOK AU - Christians,Clifford G. AU - Van Hook,Jay M. TI - Jacques Ellul: interpretive essays SN - 0252008901 AV - BX4827.E5 J3 1981 PY - 1981/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Ellul, Jacques, N1 - 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; Also issued online ER -