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New Reading of Jacques Ellul

Presence and Communication in the Postmodern World

New Reading of Jacques Ellul

Presence and Communication in the Postmodern World

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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793604347
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 23/09/2020
Width: 16.1 cm
Height: 7.6 cm
This book presents an original and dynamic reading of the twentieth-century French sociologist and theological ethicist Jacques Ellul. Adopting Ellul’s use of ‘presence’ as a hermeneutical key to understanding his work, it examines the origins of Ellul’s approach to presence in his readings of Kierkegaard and the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, highlights the central structural role of presence in Ellul’s theological ethics, and elucidates a crucial turning point in Ellul’s theology following a personal crisis in Ellul’s faith and life. Drawing from numerous unpublished and untranslated texts, Jacob Marques Rollison argues that this crisis involves confrontation with a critique of presence manifest in Ellul’s reading of and engagement with Michel Foucault. Marques Rollison distills Ellul’s sociological critiques and theological responses to this crisis, presenting Ellul’s evolving theology against the background of major shifts in French intellectual life. In doing so, the author simultaneously calls for renewed engagement with Ellul’s prophetic thought, critically appraises Ellul’s dialectical theology and Marxist inheritances, and develops a robustly Protestant approach to theological communication ethics for our time.
Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Questions in Dialogue

Part I: Architecture

Chapter 1: Reason for Being: Ellul’s Existential Epistemology of the Present

Chapter 2: Community in the Present: Marx, Institutions, and Language

Part II: Movement

Chapter 3: The Dialogue of Sign and Presence: Presence and Signification in Ellul’s Theological Ethics

Chapter 4: Crises in Communication

Chapter 5: A Hopeful, Spoken Incognito: Presence in the Postmodern World

Conclusion: The Mystery of the Word

Appendix 1: Interpretive Summary of Ellul’s Article “The Dialogue of Sign and Presence” (1936?)

Appendix 2: Ellul’s Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aberdeen

Bibliography

About the Author

Jacob Marques Rollison

Jacob Rollison is on the board of directors of the International Jacques Ellul Society.

Jacob Rollison has woven together numerous strands in the study of Ellul's writings, presenting a fresh, welcomed challenge to postmodernist trends that devalue the role of language in today's world. Anyone interested in a theologically-informed 'ethics of communication' will profit greatly from this engaging book. -- Ted Lewis, Executive Director for the International Jacques Ellul Society

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