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Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio

A Nascent Theological Tradition

Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio

A Nascent Theological Tradition

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781793625434
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 17/06/2021
Width: 16 cm
Height: 22.8 cm

This book examines biographical and textual connections between sociologist-theologian Jacques Ellul and philosopher-phenomenologist Paul Virilio. Through an examination of Ellul and Virilio’s embeddedness in the socio-historical context of postwar France, the book identifies a relationship between these critics of technology which constitutes a nascent theological tradition. The author shows from various vantage points how Ellul and Virilio’s nascent tradition exposes technology as modernity’s primary idol; and, how it uses multiple disciplines—including history, sociology, philosophy, phenomenology, theology, and ethics—to resist the perilous consequences of the modern world’s worship of power and the kinds of technologies this misdirected worship produces. Jacques Ellul’s death in 1994 and Paul Virilio’s death in 2018 may have prevented the maturation of this nascent theological tradition, but Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio aids this tradition’s ripening through the presentation of an illuminating way to read these two unique, and at times quixotic, intellectuals.

Chapter 1: War, Modernity, and Technology

Chapter 2: The Construction of Idols

Chapter 3: Combatting Myth with Myth

Chapter 4: Technology’s Origins

Chapter 5: Power, Powers, and Technology

Chapter 6: Ethics for Modern Thought, Action, and Making

Michael Morelli

Michael Morelli is assistant dean of undergraduate studies and assistant professor of theology, culture & ethics at Northwest College and Seminary