Ellul, Jacques

Ellul, Jacques
(b. 1912)
   Theologian.
   Ellul was born in Bordeaux, France. His father was a member of the Greek Orthodox Church while his mother was a Protestant. Trained as a lawyer, he taught at the University of Strasbourg until he was removed by the Vichy government. During the Second World War he was involved in the Resistance movement and after the war he accepted a position at the University of Bordeaux teaching law and sociology. A member of the French Reformed Church, he broke with the World Council of Churches over their attitude to Third World revolutionary movements. Ellul has written several important and influential books on the Church, technology and social change. Those translated into English include The Technological Society (1954), Propaganda (1965), The Meaning of the City (1970) and The Ethics of Freedom (1976).
   C.G. Christians and J.M. Hook, Jacques Ellul: Interpretation Essays (1981).

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