Theology Ethics And Technology In The Work Of Jacques Ellul And Paul Virilio

Author : Michael Morelli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793625441
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio written by Michael Morelli and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio examines biographical and textual connections between sociologist-theologian Jacques Ellul and philosopher-phenomenologist Paul Virilio. Through an examination of their embeddedness in the socio-historical context of postwar France, Michael Morelli identifies a relationship between these critics of technology that bears the marks of a nascent theological tradition. He shows from various vantage points how Ellul and Virilio’s nascent tradition exposes technology as modernity’s primary idol; and, how these thinkers use multiple disciplines—including history, sociology, philosophy, phenomenology, theology, and ethics—to resist the perilous consequences of the modern world’s worship of power and the kinds of technologies this misdirected worship produces. Jacques Ellul’s death in 1994 and Paul Virilio’s death in 2018 may have prevented the maturation of this nascent theological tradition, but this book will aid in this tradition’s ripening through the presentation of an illuminating way to read these two unique, prophetic intellectuals.

Author : Matthew T. Prior
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532671474
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Technology written by Matthew T. Prior and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living through a digital revolution which already touches every area of life and will continue to shape the future in as yet unforeseen ways. Digital technologies are an ordinary part of daily life, and yet they also present an unprecedented challenge to Christians to articulate a biblical, theological framework to navigate times of rapid change. The work of the French theologian Jacques Ellul is a theological time-bomb primed for times like these. Accounts of Ellul's career often divide off his sociology and theology, but this book argues that Ellul conceived a single project of bringing technology into confrontation with the Word of God, tackling the phenomenon he named technique, the pursuit of maximal power and efficiency implicit in the technological enterprise, with a profound depth of biblical and ethical insight. Centering himself on the apocalypse or revelation of Jesus Christ in history, Ellul offers a monumental, timely (though far from flawless) contribution to contemporary ethical debates about the uses and abuses of technologies. His work blazes a trail that Christians and all concerned for the future would do well to follow, as we avoid both the naivety of "technological neutrality" and the dread of "technological determinism."

Author : Jacob Marques Rollison
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227178068
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacques Ellul and the Bible written by Jacob Marques Rollison and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hermeneutic contribution of the French theologian and sociologist Jacques Ellul is given new prominence in this striking collection of essays, revealing him to be one of the twentieth century's most creative and insightful interpreters of the Bible. With a breadth of contributors ranging from established biblical scholars and theologians to pastoral practitioners, from top Ellul scholars to emerging voices - and including six first-time English translations of Ellul's own articles - this volume not only provides a detailed overview of Ellul's biblical approach but also constitutes a crucial moment in Ellul's theological reception. The essays gathered here represent a clear demonstration that the full potential of Ellul's theological interpretation of Scripture to rejuvenate and reconfigure contemporary biblical hermeneutics has yet to be seen.

Author : David W. Gill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666747335
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul written by David W. Gill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul originated (1979) as one of the first PhD dissertations on the thought of French sociologist and theologian Jacques Ellul (1912–94), author of some sixty volumes on the nature and impact of modern technology and on Christian ethics. Ethicist David Gill studied with Ellul and devoted his own career to an exploration of how Jesus and Scripture can bring the Word of God to our contemporary world, especially to our work and technology. More recently Jacques Ellul and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutic of Freedom, edited by Jacob Marques Rollison (Wipf & Stock, 2020), including an essay by David Gill, adds fresh insight to this critical topic.

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666742538
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word features an English translation of a recently discovered and until-now unpublished essay of Jacques Ellul’s that examines the significance of the desert from biblical, theological, and ethical perspectives. It also provides an introduction that contextualizes Ellul’s piece, and five incendiary essays that critically reflect on Ellul’s work. Altogether, this volume offers fresh and provocative insight into the writings of Jacques Ellul during a historical moment that appears to be on its way to, or already in, a desert, wilderness, and wasteland, with many people in it who are desperate for encounters with a new, revitalizing Word.

Author : Darrell J. Fasching
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thought of Jacques Ellul written by Darrell J. Fasching and published by New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the work of Jacques Ellul. This work argues that he is one the most important Christian thinkers on the implications of a technological civilization with regard to religion.

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Freedom written by Jacques Ellul and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725259796
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and Technique written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and Technique is a posthumous, incomplete volume drafted in the 1970s that nevertheless constitutes a significant addition to the Ellul corpus. Working from Jacques Ellul's original outline, a collaborative team including three of Ellul's children, a grandson, and Ellul scholars has assembled previous partial publications that Ellul himself approved for eventual incorporation along with relevant unpublished essays and notes into a book which throws the relationship between Ellul's radical theology and sociological critique into fresh perspective. Frederic Rognon contributes an especially insightful general introduction. The translation by Christian Roy is a model of rendering the complexities of the French original into English. This latest Ellul publication will be essential to any serious attempt to appreciate the scope and depth of Ellul's Christian engagement with the challenges of the contemporary world.

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532676174
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Will & To Do written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Will & To Do presents one of the most significant theological contributions of the dynamic twentieth-century thinker Jacques Ellul. Benefiting from recent scholarship on Ellul and a discovery of a lost manuscript, this new edition renders the full text available in English for the first time, combining a fresh translation of volume I with a first English translation of volume II. Together, the two volumes constitute the introductory first part of Ellul’s planned four-part treatment of Christian ethics. Volume I examines the origin of the problem of good and evil, outlines the contemporary morality of Western society, and provocatively sketches the paradox of an impossible and yet necessary Christian ethics. Volume II carries this discussion forward, outlining the characteristics and conditions of Christian ethics. It then treats the relationship between ethics and the legal texts of the Bible, the relationship between ethics and dogmatic theology, and concludes by reimagining the theological use of the “analogy of faith” for scriptural interpretation. In constant dialogue with Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Ricoeur, and many other theologians and philosophers, To Will & To Do constitutes a major intervention in twentieth-century theological ethics.

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532676166
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Will & To Do, Volume One written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Will & To Do presents one of the most significant theological contributions of the dynamic twentieth-century thinker Jacques Ellul. Benefiting from recent scholarship on Ellul and a discovery of a lost manuscript, this new edition renders the full text available in English for the first time, combining a fresh translation of Volume I with a first English translation of Volume II. Together, the two volumes constitute the introductory first part of Ellul's planned four-part treatment of Christian ethics. Volume I examines the origin of the problem of Good and Evil, outlines the contemporary morality of Western society, and provocatively sketches the paradox of an impossible and yet necessary Christian ethics. Volume II carries this discussion forward, outlining the characteristics and conditions of Christian ethics. It then treats the relationship between ethics and the legal texts of the Bible, the relationship between ethics and dogmatic theology, and concludes by reimagining the theological use of the "analogy of faith" for scriptural interpretation. In constant dialogue with Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Ricoeur, and many other theologians and philosophers, To Will & To Do constitutes a major intervention in twentieth-century theological ethics.