Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Void and the Wasteland
"We can no longer communicate with one another because our neighbors have ceased to be real to us." In 1948!
Presence in the Modern World
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Death of Contemplation and Intuition
Thinkers in all fields have become constrained by a need to produce practical results, and they do so by using technique -- or is it technique that uses them?
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Suicide of the Mind
Intellectuals either accept the prevailing myths (which they know are false) for the sake of their careers, or else decide: "LOL nothing matters." It's the same thing.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Renewed Mind and the Fog of Facts
After another long break, back to Ellul's Presence: What is a Christian intellectual, and what is his or her function in a world hidden in a fog of unreality?
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Unreal Life
Our actual experiences are boring. So we fixate on the thousands of sensational images and interesting "facts" that bombard us each day. Then we create an explanatory myth and live inside a permanent, realistic (but completely unreal) dream. Welcome to Chapter 4, "Communications."
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Being Alive
True action is a matter of living, not of doing, and that is the revolutionary attitude Christians should take in the world.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the True Value of Means
So what are Christians supposed to do about all these other means? Stop thinking of them as means, for one thing.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on God's Unified Means and End
Christians, as the presence of the Kingdom in the world, are God's means and end.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Illusion of Inner Freedom
"Means" destroy everything that might hinder their advance, and little by little extend their dominion over everything, turning humans into objects to be acted upon.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Self-Justifying Means
Genies, bottles, toothpaste, tubes.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Disappearing End
The means justify the means. Ellul writes that humans have set off at high speeds toward nowhere.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Christian Freedom
Christians are here to preserve the world, not to save it.