Jacques Ellul Quotes
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.
Ellul, Jacques. The Subversion of Christianity. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1986, p. 13.
While moderate Muslims interpret this sura as meaning that theologically, a belief in the divinity of Christ is inconsistent to Islam, extreme fundamentalists take this to indicate that Christians are heretics and should be executed in accordance with Sharia – Islamic Law.
Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist. Ellul was a longtime Professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Bordeaux. A prolific writer, he authored more than 60 books and more than 600 articles over his lifetime, many of which discussed propaganda, the impact of technology on society, and the interaction between religion and politics.
