Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Christian Realism
Christians must approach every political and social situation individually, from the perspective of their place in God's Kingdom, because Christianity cannot be reduced to mere principles or doctrine.
Presence in the Modern World
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Ellul on Living into the Future
What is the right way to live when you know how your story ends?
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Ellul on Being Christian in a Disordered World
Christians belong to two cities. What can it mean when one tries to take that truism seriously?
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Ellul on the State of Permanent Christian Revolution
Christians exist in a state of permanent revolution, not against the government but against the world.
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Ellul on the Revolutionary Spirit Against the Facts
Jacques Ellul defines the revolutionary spirit and says that facts are not true.
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Things Fall Apart, But the Center, It Holds
Political debates, Jacques Ellul wrote, are always about power, never about change. The appearance of movement and development are illusions.
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The World Is Ending Today and Yesterday and Tomorrow
People always think they are living in the end times. They're right.
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Ellul: The World's Will Is Always a Will to Suicide
Wrapping up Chapter 1 of Presence: Where God's will and the world's will collide.
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Ellul: Walking the Talk, Redeeming the Time
Ellul says that Christians are called to "redeem the time" through both action and words, which are inseparable.
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Ellul: Thoughts & Prayers
Jacques Ellul offers "thoughts and prayers" for Christians seeking to preserve the world.
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Ellul: Stop Making Sense
A summary so far; what ethics are for; the problem with being nice.
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Ellul: Do Not Confuse Christian Ethics with Morality
We try to resolve the tension of living in a sinful world by creating systems of morality to try and improve the situation. But the world can't be made less sinful by us, and Christianity is not morality.