"The Lord knows our human thoughts; how like a puff of wind they are." (Psalm 94:11)
Resuming my read-through of Jacques Ellul’s Presence in the Modern World. I got sidetracked for a while with life, vacation, other writings and readings. There is still quite a bit of Chapter 1 to muddle through. In my last post, I mentioned Ellul’s contention that the world is now so interconnected that all of us … Read more
Continuing my read-through of Chapter 1 of Jacques Ellul’s Presence in the Modern World. There’s a lot here. Ellul (perhaps because he was a layperson) is most concerned with the plight of the laity in the modern world, because unlike the clergy, there is no separation between a layperson and the rest of society. “Claiming … Read more
Started reading Jacques Ellul’s Presence in the Modern World a while back and set it aside because I had to read some Kierkegaard for a couple of Catherine Project groups, and I can only take so much. After those months of strenuous mental exercise, I’m returning to the Ellul and it feels a tiny bit … Read more