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About the Ellul Forum

Welcome to the Ellul Forum, a twice-yearly journal published by the International Jacques Ellul Society.

Members of the Society receive each issue as it is published (choice of print + PDF, or PDF only). For non-members, issues in PDF are uploaded to this website after a one-year delay.

The Forum encourages submissions from scholars, students, and general readers. Submissions must demonstrate a degree of familiarity with Ellul’s thought and must engage with it in a critical way. Please write charitably, for a readership of intelligent non-specialists. Articles are typically 5,000 to 6,000 words, not counting any footnotes. Book reviews are considerably shorter.

Submissions may be sent to ijes@ellul.org.

Editor

Lisa Richmond, Hamilton, Ontario

Editorial Board

Daniel Cérézuelle, Bordeaux, France
Patrick Chastenet, Bordeaux, France
David Gill, Berkeley, California
David Lovekin, Hastings, Nebraska
Frédéric Rognon, Strasbourg, France
Christian Roy, Montréal, Québec

Publisher

The International Jacques Ellul Society
Law Office of Ken Morris (Attn: IJES)
1285 Yellow Pine Avenue
Boulder, CO 80304

ISSN

2638-0447

Issue 51: Spring 2013

April 1, 2013

Articles

The Sense of Incarnation in Ellul and Charbonneau
Daniel Cérézuelle

The Problem of Health Care as Technique
Raymond Downing

Générations Ellul : Soixante héritiers de la pensée de Jacques Ellul, by Frédéric Rognon
Michel Houcade
Randal Marlin

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Issue 50: Fall 2012

October 1, 2012

Articles

Legacy and Promise: Reflections on the Jacques Ellul Centennial
Mark Baker, Stephanie Bennett, Arthur Boers, Daniel Cérézuelle, Patrick Chastenet, Clifford Christians, Darrell Fasching, Geri Forsberg, David W. Gill, Jeffrey Greenman, Joyce Hanks, David Lovekin, Randal Marlin, Carl Mitcham, Christian Roy, Richard Stivers, Willem Vanderburg

Gabriel Vahanian, 1927–2012: A Personal Reflections
Darrell Fasching

IJES Ellul Forum: Transitions Time
David Gill

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Issue 49: Spring 2012

April 1, 2012

Art, Technique, and Meaning in Jacques Ellul

Articles

Looking and Seeing: The Play of Image and Word: The Wager of Art in the Technological Society
David Lovekin

Technique and the Collapse of Symbolic Thought
Samir Younes

Book Reviews

Our War on Ourselves: Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth, by Willem Vanderburg
Richard Stivers

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Issue 48: Fall 2011

October 1, 2011

Anarchism and Jacques Ellul

Articles

Yahweh Is Still King: Engaging 1 Samuel 8 and Jacques Ellul
Thomas Bridges

Come Out, My People: Rethinking the Bible’s Ambivalence about Civilization
Wes Howard-Brook

Just Policing: An Ellulian Critique
Andy Alexis-Baker

Going Offline
Brenna Cussen Anglada

Book Reviews

Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel, by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos
Tripp York

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Issue 47: Spring 2011

April 1, 2011

Pop Culture, Jacques Ellul, and Thomas Merton

Articles

The Emerging Field of Religion and Popular Culture
Dell DeChant

Pop Culture’s “New Demons”: Obama, the Sacred, and Civil Religion
Frank Ferreri

Snap, Crackle, Pop Christianity: Discerning the Church in the Age of Enlightenment
Stephanie Bennett

Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Propaganda
Jeffrey Shaw

Book Reviews

Jacques Ellul on Freedom, Love, and Power, edited by Willem Vanderburg
David Gill

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Issue 46: Fall 2010

October 1, 2010

Technique, Ellul, and the Food Industry

Articles

Our Food System Equation
Robb Davis

If We Serve the God of Productivity
Randy Ataide

Jacques Ellul and Wendell Berry on an Agrarian Resistance
Matthew Regier

Ellul and Medicine
Raymond Downing

Book Reviews

In Defense of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Mark Baker

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Issue 45: Spring 2010

April 1, 2010

Ellul in the Undergraduate Classroom

Articles

Encountering Ellul on His Own Terms
Jeffrey Greenman, Read Schuchardt, and Noah Toly

Ellul and Gojira
Lee Ketch

Dialoguing Ellul and Vahanian
Daniel Saunders

Putting Technology in Place
Kari Amick

Economy and Ecclesia
Jake Rollison

A True Solidarity
Ben Robertson

Student Reflections on Ellul
Graham Smith, Ashleigh Lamb, and Juliana Wilhoit

Advancing the Dialectic
Kirsten Guidero

The Ellul Collection at Wheaton
David Malone

Book Reviews

Death and Life in America: Biblical Healing and Biomedicine, by Raymond Downing
David Gill

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Issue 44: Fall 2009

October 1, 2009

Ellul, Capitalism, and the Workplace

Articles

Capitalism in the Thought of Jacques Ellul: Eight Theses
Virginia Landgraf

Market Capitalism: The Religion of the Market and Its Challenge to the Church
Nekeisha Alexis-Baker

The Triumph of the Image over Reasoning: Thoughts on the World of Computing
Bryan Winters

Book Reviews

From Faith to Fun: The Secularization of Humor, by Russell Heddendorf
Anthony Petrotta

Money and Power, by Jacques Ellul
David W. Gill

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Issue 43: Spring 2009

April 1, 2009

Ellul in Scandinavia

Articles

Cybergnosticism Triumphant?
Erik Persson

The Survival of Culture
Monica Papazu

The Islamization of the West
Christian Braw

Book Reviews

Green Politics Is Utopian, by Paul Gilk
Jacob Van Vleet

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Issue 42: Fall 2008

October 1, 2008

Practical Politics

Articles

Wild and Untamed
Andy Alexis-Baker

Prophets in Politics
Cliff Christians

The Political Path and the Road to God
Daniel Clendenin

Beyond the Froth: Witnessing to the Powers
Chuck Fager

What Divides Us and What Unites Us
Joyce Hanks

Desacralize and Act, Modestly
Virginia Landgraf

Teaching, Thinking, and Friendship
David Lovekin

Politics as Power over Others
Didier Nordon

Affecting Culture, or Not
T. Daniel Schotanus

Libertarian with Soul and Conscience
Lawrence Terlizzese

Moderation amidst Polarization
Daryl Wennemann

Live, Talk, Work, Play
Bryan Winters

Book Reviews

Secularization and Cultural Criticism, by Vincent Pecora
Don Surrency

Electing Not to Vote, by Ted Lewis
David W. Gill

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Issue 41: Spring 2008

April 1, 2008

Islam and Religion

Articles

Religious Postmodernism in an Age of Global Conflict
Darrell Fasching

Islam and Non-Muslims
Jacques Ellul

The Influence of Islam on Christianity
Jacques Ellul

Book Reviews

Le Destin d’Israël, by André Chouraqui
Joyce Hanks

The Reception of Jacques Ellul’s Critique of Technology: An Annotated Bibliography, by Joyce Hanks
Darrell Fasching

Hope in the Thought of Jacques Ellul, by Lawrence Terlizzese
Andy Alexis-Baker

Shades of Loneliness, by Richard Stivers
Jacob Van Vleet

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Issue 40: Fall 2007

October 1, 2007

Jacques Ellul and Latin America

Articles

The Internet as a Media Extension: The Case of Mexico
Fernando Gutiérrez

Jacques Ellul: Humankind in the Presence of Technology
Maria de la Casa Perez

Silence and Mobile Media: An Ellulian Perspective
Stephanie Bennett

A Honduran Mayor’s Experience of Ellul’s Political Illusion
Mark Baker

Bibliography: Ellul, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Writings
Joyce Hanks

Book Reviews

La Pensée marxiste and Les successuers de Marx, by Jacques Ellul, edited by Michel Hourcade, Jean-Pierre Jézéquel, and Gérard Paul
Joyce Main Hanks

Living in the Labyrinth of Technology, by Willem vanderburg
Richard Stivers

Religious No More: Building Communities of Grace and Freedom, by Mark D. Baker
Ken Morris

Beyond Paradise: Technology and the Kingdom of God, by Jack Clayton Swearengen
Jacob Van Vleet

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Issue 39: Spring 2007

April 1, 2007

The Ethics of Jacques Ellul

Articles

Jacques Ellul’s Ethics: Legacy and Promise
David W. Gill

On Ethics and Morality
Jacques Ellul

The Ethics of Holiness in an Age of Globalization
Darrell J. Fasching

Ellul’s Technique, Wikinomics, and the Ethical Frontier
Randy M. Ataide

Book Reviews

To Will & to Do, by Jacques Ellul
Matthew Patillo

The Ethics of Freedom, by Jacques Ellul
Andrew Goddard

Écologie et liberté : Bernard Charbonneau précurseur de l’écologie politique, by Daniel Cérézuelle
Carl Mitcham

Comparative Ethics: A Narrative Approach, by Darrell Fasching and Dell DeChant
Louise Doire

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Issue 38: Fall 2006

October 1, 2006

The Politics of Jacques Ellul

Articles

The Political Thought of Jacques Ellul: A 20th-Century Man
Patrick Troude-Chastenet

On Politics and the State
selections from Jacques Ellul

How Ellul Influenced My Political Thought and Behavior
Mark Mayhle, Randal Marlin, Sharon Gallagher, John Gwin

Suspicion, Accusation, Fragmentation
David W. Gill

Book Reviews

The Political Illusion, by Jacques Ellul
Randal Marlin

Autopsy of Revolution, by Jacques Ellul
Andy Alexis-Baker

False Presence of the Kingdom, by Jacques Ellul
Virginia Landgraf

Anarchy and Christianity, by Jacques Ellul
Don Surrency

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Issue 37: Spring 2006

April 1, 2006

Propaganda and Ethics

Articles

The Ethics of Propaganda
Jacques Ellul

Problems in Ellul’s Treatment of Propaganda
Randal Marlin

Semantics and Ethics of Propaganda
Jay Black

Re-Viewing Jacques Ellul’s Histoire de la propagande
Randal Marlin

Re-Viewing Jacques Ellul’s Humiliation of the Word
Russell Heddendorf

The Word of Jacques Ellul
David W. Gill

Book Reviews

The Hebrew Christ, by Claude Tresmontant
John Gwin

Perspectives on Culture, Technology and Communicaton: The Media Ecology Tradition, edited by Casey Man Kong Lum
J. Wesley Baker

Digital Matters: The Theory and Culture of the Matrix, by Paul A. Taylor and Jan Harris
David J. Gunkel

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Issue 36: Fall 2005

October 1, 2005

Ellul and the Bible

Articles

Jacques Ellul as a Reader of Scripture
Anthony J. Petrotta

Ellul on Scripture and Idolatry
Andrew Goddard

If You Are the Son of God!
Andy Alexis-Baker

Ellul’s Apocalypse
Virginia W. Landgraf

Is God Truly Just?
Patrick Chastenet

Dieu est-il injuste ?
Patrick Chastenet

Ellul’s God’s Politics
Chris Friesen

Judging Ellul’s Jonah
Victor Shepherd

Book Reviews

The Hebrew Christ: Language in the Age of the Gospels, by Claude Tresmontant
John L. Gwin

Anonymous God, by Gabriel Vahanian
Darrell J. Fasching

Les Dix Comandements aujourd’hui : Dix paroles pour reconcilier l’homme avec l’humain, by André Chouraqui
Le Decalogue : Une morale pour notre temps, by Alphonse Maillot
David W. Gill

News & Notes

Resources for Ellul Studies

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Issue 35: Spring 2005

April 1, 2005

René Girard and Jacques Ellul

Articles

Introducing René Girard
Jim Grote

Christianity, Violence, and Anarchy: Girard and Ellul
Matthew Pattillo

A Conversation with René Girard
David W. Gill

Book Reviews

The New Demons, by Jacques Ellul
Darrell Fasching

Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics, by Jim Grote and John McGeeney
David W. Gill

Islam et Judéo-christianisme, by Jacques Ellul
David W. Gill

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Issue 34: Fall 2004

October 1, 2004

Jacques Ellul on Sports

Articles

Sport, Technique, and Society: Ellul on Sports
Sport, technique, et société : Le sport vu par Jacques Ellul
Michel Hourcade

Ellul and the Internet
Boyan Koutevski

Political Illusions and Realities
David Gill

Book Reviews

The Technological Society, by Jacques Ellul
Rustum Roy

Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, by Bill McKibben
David Gill

Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks of His Life and Work, 2d ed., edited by Bill Vanderburg
David Gill

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Issue 33: Spring 2004

April 1, 2004

Jacques Ellul Today

Articles

Ellul Today
Ellul aujourd-hui
Jean-Luc Porquet

A Look at Ellul the Biblical Scholar
Un regard sur Ellul bibliste
Olivier Pigeaud

New Metamorphoses of Bourgeois Society
Nouvelles metamorphoses de la société bourgeoise
Gérard Paul

Book Reviews

The Presence of the Kingdom, by Jacques Ellul
Virginia Landgraf

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Issue 32: Fall 2003

October 1, 2003

Violence, Terrorism, and Technology

Articles

Ellul on Violence and Just War
Andrew Goddard

Beyond Cyberterrorism: Cybersecurity in Everyday Life
Dal Yong Jin

Surveillance after 9/11: Ellul and Electronic Profiling
David Lyon

An Ellulian Agenda
David W. Gill

Book Reviews

Cybermarx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism, by Nick Dyer-Witheford
Jonathan Sterne

Jacques Ellul : L’homme qui avait presque tout prévu, par Jean-Luc Porquet
Patrick Chastenet

Living the Word, Resisting the World: The Life and THought of Jacques Ellul, by Andrew Goddard
David W. Gill

Resist the Powers with Jacques Ellul, by Charles Ringma
David W. Gill

Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective, by Jacques Ellul
Mark D. Baker

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Issue 31: Spring 2003

April 1, 2003

Remembering Ivan Illich and Katharine Temple

Articles

Remembering Kassie
Jim Grote

Fascinated by the Instruments of Power
Katharine Temple

Capitalist Starbuckers
Katharine Temple

Jacques Ellul: The Word of God in a World of Technique
Jeff Dietrich and Kassie Temple

En memoria de Ivan Illich
Andoni Alonso and Carl Mitcham

In Memoriam: Ivan Illich
Aaron Falbel

A Note on the Death of Illich
Barbara Duden and Silja Samerski

The Loss of World and Flesh
Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich: In Memoriam
Pieter Tijmes

All Things Considered: On Ivan Illich
Carl Mitcham

The Death of Ivan Illich
Lee Hoinacki

How Big Is the Tent?
David W. Gill

Book Reviews

Harvard and the Unabomber, by Alston Chase
David Gill

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