The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
230 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 x 0.46 in
- Paperback
- 9781666747331
- Published: June 2022
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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.
David W. Gill is a writer in Oakland, California (www.davidwgill.org). He served forty years as an ethics professor at New College Berkeley (1977–90), North Park University (1992–2001), St. Mary’s College Graduate School of Business (2004–10), and Gordon-Conwell Seminary (2010–16). He was the founder (1977), dean (1979–86), and president (1986–90) of the graduate school of theology at New College Berkeley, equipping Christians with an organically biblical ethics.
“We are indebted to [David Gill] for careful scholarship, a judiciously cautious loyalty, a clarity of exposition, and an ongoing attention to this prophetic law professor from Bordeaux whose challenge is always as unpredictable as it is insistent.”
Edward LeRoy Long Jr., Drew University
“Gill respects Ellul immensely but is not a hagiographer. . . . The book is an
excellent introduction to Ellul’s thought.”
G. A. Cole, The Reformed Theological Review
“As a handbook to Ellul, we could ask for none better. As a critical piece this book succeeds because Gill is uniquely positioned: he has walked with Ellul in France. That probably accounts for much of this book’s difference from other merely cerebral analyses. Gill has achieved a multileveled, clearly developed, and richly interpretive exposition.”
Mark Fackler, Fides et Historia