Secondary Literature

Listed on this page are only some of the many books that have been written on Ellul and his thought. It contains only works in English or in French, and it is not a complete bibliography.

Wipf and Stock publishes many of Ellul’s work in English translation. Librairie Mollat is a good source for French-language books by and about Ellul.

Cahiers Jacques Ellul, ed. Patrick Chastenet. L’Esprit du Temps. Vol. 1, L’Années personnalistes. Vol. 2, La Technique. Vol. 3, L’Economie. Vol. 4, La Propagande. Vol. 5, La Politique.

Chastenet, Patrick. Lire Ellul. Introduction à l’œuvre socio-politique de Jacques Ellul. Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 1992.

Christians, Clifford G., and Jay M. Van Hook, ed. Jacques Ellul: Interpretive Essays. University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Clendenin, Daniel B. Theological Method in Jacques Ellul. University Press of America, 1987.

Fasching, Darrell J. The Thought of Jacques Ellul: A Systematic Exposition. Edwin Mellen, 1981.

Gill, David W. The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul. Scarecrow Press, 1984.

Goddard, Andrew. Living the Word, Resisting the World: The Life and Thought of Jacques Ellul. Paternoster, 2002.

Greenman, Jeffrey P., Read Mercer Schuchardt, and Noah J. Toly. Understanding Jacques Ellul. Cascade, 2012.

Hanks, Joyce Main. Jacques Ellul: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Works. Published in Research in Philosophy and Technology, supp. 5. This is an essential guide for anyone doing research in Ellul’s writings. It contains an excellent brief biography followed by a 140-page annotated bibliography of Ellul’s fifty books and 1000-plus articles, and a subject index.

Hanks, Joyce Main, ed. The Reception of Jacques Ellul’s Critique of Technology: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings on His Life and Thought (Books, Articles, Reviews, Symposia). Edwin Mellen, 2007. Another indispensable resource.

Holloway, James Y., ed. Introducing Jacques Ellul. Eerdmans, 1970. Includes articles by Gabriel Vahanian, William Stringfellow, Christopher Lasch, and six others.

Latouche, Serge. Jacques Ellul. Contre le totalitarisme technicien. Le Passager Clandestin, 2013.

Lovekin, David. Technique, Discourse, and Consciousness: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jacques Ellul. Associated University Press, 1991.

Mitcham, Carl, Helena M. Jerónimo, and José Luís Garcia, eds. Jacques Ellul and the Technological System in the 21st Century. Springer, 2012.

Porquet, Jean-Luc. Jacques Ellul. L’homme qui avait (presque) tout prévu. Le Cherche Midi, 2003, 2012.

Rognon, Frederic, ed. Générations Ellul. Soixante héritiers de la pensée de Jacques Ellul. Labor et Fides, 2012.

Rognon, Frédéric. Jacques Ellul. Une pensée en dialogue. Labor et Fides, 2007.

Shaw, Jeffrey M. Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition. Pickwick, 2014.

Terlizzese, Lawrence J. Hope in the Thought of Jacques Ellul. Cascade, 2005.

Troude-Chastenet, Patrick, ed. Jacques Ellul. Penseur sans frontiers. L’Esprit du temps, 2005.

Troude-Chastenet, Patrick, ed. Sur Jacques Ellul. L’Esprit du Temps, 1994.

Van Vleet, Jacob E. Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul: An Introductory Exposition. Fortress Press, 2014.