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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 9: Summer 1992

July 1, 1992

Ellul on Communications Technology

Articles

Ellul on the Need for Symbolism
J. Wesley Baker

Where Mass Media Abound, the Word Abounds Greater Still: Reflections on Robert Coles’s Study of Children, Movies, and Ethics
Darrell J. Fasching

Communication Theory in Ellul’s Sociology
Clifford G. Christians

Book Reviews

Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media, by Quentin J. Schultze, Roy M. Anker, et al.
Philip Lee

Mythmakers: Gospel, Culture, and the Media, by William F. Fore
Mark Fackler

Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions, edited by Robert Abelman and Stewart M. Hoover
Gudm. Gjelsten

The Hope of Intervention: A Rhetorical Analysis of the English Translations of the Writings of Jacques Ellul
abstract of J. Wesley Baker’s 1991 PhD dissertation

The Technological City: 1984 in Singapore
abstract of Lawson Liat-Ho Lau’s 1991 PhD dissertation

Biblioraphic Notes on Theology and Technology
Carl Mitcham

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Issue 8: Winter 1992

January 1, 1992

Ivan Illich’s Theology of Technology

Articles

Health as One’s Own Responsibility: No, Thank You!
Ivan Illich

Against Health: An Interview with Ivan Illich

Reflections on “Health as One’s Own Responsibility”
Lee Hoinacki

The Teddy Bearracks
David B. Schwartz

Posthumous Longevity and Toward a Post-Clerical Church
Ivan Illich

“Dear Kelly” Memo
Lee Hoinacki

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Issue 7: Summer 1991

July 1, 1991

Jacques Ellul as a Theologian for Catholics

Articles

In Memory of Mme Yvette Ellul
Joyce Hanks

Jacques Ellul and the Catholic Worker of the Next Century: Therefore Choose Life
Jeff Dietrich

Jacques Ellul: A Catholic Worker Vision of the Culture
Katherine Temple

Born-Again Catholic Workers: A Conversation between Jeff Dietrich and Katherine Temple

Jacques Ellul and Thomas Merton on Technique
Gene L. Davenport

Book Reviews

The Technological Bluff, by Jacques Ellul
Nicola Hoggard Creegan

Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes, by Jacques Ellul
Daniel Clendenin

Into the Darkness: Discipleship in the Sermon on the Mount, by Gene L. Davenport
Darrell J. Fasching

Ethics after Babel, by Jeffrey Stout
David Werther

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Issue 6: Fall 1990

November 1, 1990

Faith and Wealth in a Technological Civilization

Articles

Some Reflections on Faith and Wealth
Justo L. González

Luke 14:33 and the Normativity of Dispossession
Thomas E. Schmidt

Book Reviews

Money and Power, by Jacques Ellul
Daniel Clendenin

Public Theology and Political Economy: Christian Stewardship in Modern Society, by Max L. Stackhouse
Daniel Heimbach

Faith and Wealth, by Justo L. González
Michael Novak

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Issue 5: Summer 1990

June 1, 1990

The Utopian Theology of Gabriel Vahanian

Articles

Gabriel Vahanian’s “Utopian Connection”: Speaking of God, the Human, and Technology
Darrell J. Fasching

Theology of Culture: Tillich’s Quest for a New Religious Paradigm
Gabriel Vahanian

Law and Ethics in Ellul’s Theology
Sylvain Dujancourt

Notes on the Catholic Church and Technology
Sergio Silva

Book Reviews

The Struggle for America’s Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism, by Robert Wuthnow
David L. Russell

God and Utopia: The Church in a Technological Civilization, by Gabriel Vahanian
Lonnie D. Kliever

Bibliographic Notes on Theology and Technology
Carl Mitcham and Jim Grote

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Issue 4: Fall 1989

November 1, 1989

Judaism and Christianity after Auschwitz and Hiroshima

Articles

After Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Judaism and Christianity in a Technological Civilization
Darrell J. Fasching

On Christians, Jews, and the Law
Katharine Temple

Vernard Eller’s Response to Katharine Temple

Michael Bauman’s Response to Jacques Ellul

Book Reviews

Un Chrétien pour Israël, by Jacques Ellul
Darrell J. Fasching

What I Believe, by Jacques Ellul
Daniel J. Lewis

Le bluff technologique, by Jacques Ellul
Gabriel Vahanian

Bibliographic Notes on Theology and Technology
Carl Mitcham and Jim Grote

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Issue 3: Summer 1989

June 1, 1989

Eller and Ellul on Christian Anarchy

Articles

Be Reconciled
Jacques Ellul

Reponse to Michael Bauman
Jacques Ellul

The Paradox of Anarchism and Christianity
Jacques Ellul

Ellul’s Crowning Achievement
Hu Elz

Christian Anarchy
Vernard Eller

Book Reviews

Anarchie et christianisme, by Jacques Ellul
Christian Anarchy, by Vernard Eller
Katharine Temple

Jesus and Marx, by Jacques Ellul
Daniel Clendenin

Bibliographic Report on Some Recent British Discussions Regarding Christianity and Technology
Carl Mitcham

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Issue 2: Fall 1988

November 1, 1988

Ellul’s Universalist Eschatology

Articles

The Importance of Eschatology for Ellul’s Ethics and Soteriology: A Response to Darrell Fasching
Ken Morris

A Second Forum Response to Fasching
Marva J. Dawn

Fasching’s Reply to Morris and Dawn

Book Reviews

The Growth of Minds and Cultures, by Willem Vanderburg
Katharine Temple

Jesus and Marx, by Jacques Ellul
Michael Bauman

Bibliographic Notes on Theology and Technology
Carl Mitcham and Jim Grote

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Issue 1: Summer 1988

August 1, 1988

Debut Issue

Articles

Welcome
Darrell Fasching

Freeom and Universal Salvation: Ellul and Origen
Darrell Fasching

The Ethical Importance of Universal Salvation
Darrell Fasching

A Visit with Jacques Ellul
Marva Dawn

Book Reviews

Theological Method in Jacques Ellul, by Daniel B. Clendenin
Marva Dawn

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