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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 30: Winter 2002

December 1, 2002

Ellul and Utopia

Articles

Jacques Ellul and Technological Utopia
Myung Su Yang

Ellul and Technological Utopianism: A Response to Myung Su Yang
Darrell Fasching

Utopia and Hope: A Response to “Jacques Ellul and Technological Utopia”
J. Wesley Baker

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Issue 29: Summer 2002

July 1, 2002

Rethinking Ellul’s Theory on the Role of Technology

Articles

Religiosity and the Sacred in Postmodern America: Rethinking Ellul’s Theory on the Role of Technology
Dell DeChant

The Two Faces of Religiosity in Postmodern Society
Darrell J. Fasching

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Issue 28: Winter 2002

January 1, 2002

September 11, 2001

Articles

On September 11, 2001
Daniel Cérézuelle

September 11, 2001: On Violence, Divine and Human
Darrell Fasching

The Dysfunctions of a Global Technological Society
David W. Gill

Something Still Stands
Andrew Goddard

Bombs Bursting in Air
Dan Clendenin

Terrorisme international et communication politique dans les sociétés techniciennes
Patrick Troude-Chastenet

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Issue 27: Summer 2001

July 1, 2001

Ellul and Social Theorists

Articles

Ellul versus Gramsci
Clifford Christians

Include the Iconoclast: The Voice of Jacques Ellul in Contemporary Theory and Criticism
Calvin L. Troup

Book Reviews

Technology and the Good Life, by E. Higgs, A. Light, and D. Strong
Wayne Woodward

Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational, by Richard Stivers
Dennis Martin

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Issue 26: Winter 2001

January 1, 2001

Jacques Ellul and Bernard Charbonneau

Articles

Jacques Ellul and Bernard Charbonneau
Joyce Hanks

Bernard Charbonneau and the Personalist Context in the 1930s and Beyond
Jean-Louis Loubet del Bayle

Patrick Chastenet Remembers Jacques Ellul
Patrick Chastenet

Book Reviews

The Labyrinth of Technology, by Willem Vanderburg
Carl Mitcham

Jacques Ellul: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Works, by Joyce Main Hanks
David Gill

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Issue 25: Summer 2000

July 1, 2000

Ellul in the Public Arena

Articles

Jacques Ellul: 20th Century Prophet for the 21st Century
Andrew Goddard

The Trend toward Virtual Christianity
Randall E. Otto

Jacques Ellul’s Influence on the Cultural Critique of Thomas Merton
Philip M. Thompson

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Issue 24: Winter 2000

January 1, 2000

Academics on a Journey of Faith

Articles

Science and Faith: A Personal View
William T. Newsome

Experiences of God’s Guidance
Richard H. Bube

Now a Convinced Theist
Robert G. Olsen

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Issue 23: Summer 1999

July 1, 1999

Jacques Ellul on Human Rights

Articles

Human Rights and the Natural Flaw
Gabriel Vahanian

Law, Rights, and Technology
Andrew Goddard

Natural Law or Covenant?
Sylvain Dujancourt

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Issue 22: Winter 1999

January 1, 1999

Conversations with Jacques Ellul

Articles

Jacques Ellul on Religion, Technology, and Politics
Patrick Troude-Chastenet

The Poetry of Ellul
James Lynch

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Issue 21: Summer 1998

July 1, 1998

Thomas Merton and Modern Technological Civilization

Articles

Thomas Merton’s Critique of Modern Technological Civilization
Christopher J. Kelly

Book Reviews

La Liberta christiana e le sue mediazioni sociali nel pensiro di Jacques Ellul, by Gianni Manzone
Virginia Pichietti

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Issue 20: Winter 1998

January 1, 1998

Tenth Anniversary Issue

Articles

The Residue of Culture: An Ellulian Dialogic Analysis of Religious Imagery in a Network Television Drama
Rick Clifton Moore

Jacques Ellul’s Web
Joyce Hanks

My Encounter with Ellul
Bill Vanderburg

Ellul and the Sentinel on the Wall
Marva J. Dawn

All That Counts
Daniel B. Clendenin

Reflections on Ellul’s Influence
Gabriel Vahanian

Jacques Ellul Was the First
Peter Tijmes

Book Reviews

The Life and Thought of Jacques Ellul, with Special Reference to His Writings on Law, Violence, the State, and Politics, by Andrew John Goddard
Joyce Hanks

Silences : Poèmes, by Jacques Ellul
Olivier Millet

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Issue 19: Summer 1997

July 1, 1997

Technique and the Illusion of Utopia

Articles

Singapore: Technique and the Illusion of Utopia
Lawson Lau

Book Reviews

Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte
Technopoly, by Neil Postman
Silicon Snake Oil, by Clifford Stoll
Why Things Bite Back, by Edward Tenner
David Gill

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Issue 18: Winter 1997

January 1, 1997

Lewis Mumford, Technological Critic

Articles

Updating the Urban Prospect: Using Lewis Mumford to Critique Current Conditions
James A. Moore

Mumford and McLuhan: The Roots ofModern Media Analysis
James W. Carey

Book Reviews

The Coming of the Millennium, by Darrell J. Fasching
David Gill

Sources and Trajectories: Eight Early Articles by Jacques Ellul That Set the Stage, translated and edited by Marva Dawn
Andrew J. Goddard

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Issue 17: Summer 1996

July 1, 1996

Ian Barbour on Religion, Science, and Technology

Articles

Technology and Theology
Ian G. Barbour

Norms and the Man: A Tribute to Ian Barbour
James A. Nash

Ellul and Barbour on Technology
Richard A. Deitrich

Book Reviews

Religion in an Age of Science and Ethics in an Age of Technology, Gifford Lectures, 1989–91, by Ian Barbour
Richard A. Deitrich

In the Vineyard of the Text, by Ivan Illich
Joyce Hanks

Resist the Powers with Jacques Ellul, by Charles Ringma
Donald Bloesch

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Issue 16: Winter 1996

January 1, 1996

The Ethics of Jacques Ellul

Articles

The Concept of “the Powers” as the Basis for Ellul’s Fore-Ethics
Marva J. Dawn

The Casuistry of Violence
John Howard Yoder

From Criticism to Politics: Jacques Ellul, Bernard Charbonneau, and the Committee for the Defense of the Aquitaine Coast
Daniel Cérézuelle

Ellul’s Ethics and the Apocalyptic Practice of Law
Ken Morris

Book Reviews

Sur Ellul, edited by Patrick Troude-Chastenet
Joyce Hanks

Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy, by Carl Mitcham
Pieter Tijmes

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Issue 15: Summer 1995

July 1, 1995

Women and Technology

Articles

Women and Technology: A(nother) Crisis of Representation
Susan Kray

The Symbolic Function of “Technique” as Ideogram in Ellul’s Thought
Daryl J. Wennemann

Book Reviews

Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life, by Lana Rakow
Jonathan Sterne

Feminism Confronts Technology, by Judy Wajcman
Jacqueline Ciaccio

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Issue 14: Winter 1995

January 1, 1995

Frederick Ferré on Science, Technology, and Religion

Articles

The One Best Way of Technology?
Pieter Tijmes

Book Reviews

Hellfire and Lightning Rods: Liberating Science, Technology, and Religion, by Frederick Ferré
Darrell J. Fasching

New Metaphors for Technology, by Frederick Ferré
Robert S. Fortner
Response from Frederick Ferré

Reponse to Timothy Casey’s review of Technique, Discourse, and Consciousness
David Lovekin

The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, by Darrel Fasching
Peter J. Hass
Response by Darrell Fasching

Entretiens avec Jacques Ellul, by Patrick Chastenet
Joyce Hanks

The American Hour, by Os Guinness
Donald Evans

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Issue 13: Summer 1994

July 1, 1994

In Memory of Jacques Ellul, 1912–1994

Articles

The Truth Will Set You Free
Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul, 1912–1994
Joyce Hanks

Jacques Ellul, Courage, and the Christian Imagination
Stanley Hauerwas

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: In Memory of Jacques Ellul
Bill Vanderburg

My Journey with Ellul
David Gill

Merci, mon ami
Vernard Eller

Ellul’s Prophetic Witness to the Academic Community
Clifford G. Christians

In Memoriam for Jacques Ellul
David Lovekin

Anarchy and Holiness
Gabriel Vahanian

Jacques Ellul: The Little Giant
Darrell J. Fasching

An Address to “Master Jacques”
Ivan Illich

Ellul’s Response to the Symposium in His Honor at the University of Bordeaux
Jacques Ellul

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Issue 12: Winter 1994

January 1, 1994

Ethical Relativism and Technological Civilization

Articles

Moral Relativity in the Technological Society
Peter J. Haas

Beyond Absolutism and Relativism: The Utopian Promise of Babel
Darrell J. Fasching

Book Reviews

Morality after Auschwitz, by Peter Haas
Darrell J. Fasching

Narrative Theology after Auschwitz, by Darrell J. Fasching
Peter Haas

The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia? by Darrell Fasching
Richard A. Deitrich
David P. Gushee

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Issue 11: Summer 1993

July 1, 1993

Technique and Utopia Revisited

Articles

Ellul and Vahanian on Technology and Utopianism
Maurice Weyembergh

Back to Ellul by Way of Weyembergh
Gabriel Vahanian

Ellul and Vahanian: Apocalypse or Utopia?
Darrell J. Fasching

Book Reviews

Lire Ellul, by Patrick Troude-Chastenet
Gabriel Vahanian

The Social Creation of Nature, by Neil Everndon
Nicola Hoggard Creegan

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Issue 10: Winter 1993

January 1, 1993

Technique and the Paradoxes of Development

Articles

Reflections on Social Techniques
Daniel Cérézuelle

Jacques Ellul on Development: Why It Doesn’t Work
Joyce M. Hanks

“Good” Development and Its Mirages
Serge LaTouche

Book Reviews

Technique, Discourse, and Consciousness: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jacques Ellul, by David Lovekin
Timothy Casey

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