Author: Helena M. Jerónimo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400766580
Size: 18.85 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul’s diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological society, the notion of efficiency, the process of symbolization/de-symbolization, and ecology. The second analyzes communicational and cultural problems, as well as threats and trends in early twenty-first century societies. Many of the issues Ellul saw as crucial – such as energy, propaganda, applied life sciences and communication – continue to be so. In fact they have grown exponentially, on a global scale, producing new forms of risk. Essays in the final section examine the duality of reason and revelation. They pursue an understanding of Ellul in terms of the depth of experience and the traditions of human knowledge, which is to say, on the one hand, the experience of the human being as contained in the rationalist, sociological and philosophical traditions. On the other hand there are the transcendent roots of human existence, as well as “revealed knowledge,” in the mystical and religious traditions. The meeting of these two traditions enables us to look at Ellul’s work as a whole, but above all it opens up a space for examining religious life in the technological society.
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Author: Joyce Main Hanks
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 9780762306190
Size: 26.75 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Since his death in 1994, the understanding of Jacques Ellul's significance appears to have deepened considerably. His contribution to the study of the sociology and theology of technology is universally acknowledged. This volume aims to present the totality of his work.
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Author: Jacques Ellul
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537600260
Size: 46.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process."- Harper's Magazine
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Author: Lawrence J. Terlizzese
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 159752350X
Size: 63.21 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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"Hope expresses more than an area of concentration in Ellul's thought; it is the central idea that binds his disparate elements together. Ellul believed that at this moment of history, the world since 1945, hope must preoccupy our thinking and lives. "To understand hope we must first comprehend its absence. This entails discerning what causes the absence of hope, namely the world's embrace of technique and the abandonment of God. Ellul also rejected these as a positive affirmation. He wanted to make a firm distinction between reality and truth. He affirmed modern abandonment as a realistic fact, as an accurate analysis of the present condition, not as an affirmation of the truth. Hope is truth in Jesus Christ, but truth must be asserted against these harsh facts. He used facts to incite hope in believers, to shake their complacency and to realize their actual condition in the world . . . . The idea of hope in the thought of Jacques Ellul can only be properly understood in light of dialectic struggle between negatives, which amount to factual representations of the modern world, and positives, through which hope exerts itself in the face of these facts. From this tension will issue personal resolve. Technique has brought the world to great collective heights and achievements, but this has come at the expense of personal ends and meaning. Ellul attempted to bridge this gap by asserting individual meaning against the aggregated progress of technique without destroying the gains made by collective advance. This represents the central dilemma in Ellul's thought--how does one maintain meaning and personal aims in a world founded on corporate necessity?" --from the Introduction
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Author: Darrell J. Fasching
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
ISBN:
Size: 24.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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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.
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Author: Daniel B. Clendenin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 31.98 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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