(P/B) ON FREEDOM, LOVE, AND POWER

Παρουσίαση

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was a French law professor, historian, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. During the Second World War, he was active in the French resistance; his efforts to save Jews during this time eventually earned him the title "Righteous Among the Nations". A towering intellectual figure, Ellul taught in Paris and at the University of Bordeaux, wrote and published extensively, and engaged throughout his career in a dialogue between the realities of technology and contemporary life, the tenets of the Christian faith, and the principles of human freedom. Transcribed here for the first time, this series of talks refines and clarifies some of Ellul's most controversial insights into what it means to understand and live out God's wishes.
Ellul's evaluation of a number of interrelated books of Scripture, including Genesis, Job, Matthew, and John, challenges Jewish and Christian orthodoxies and more progressive interpretations alike by claiming that the Judeo-Christian tradition is both anti-moral and anti-religious. Promoting a life based on freedom and love, Ellul's thinking opens the door to, in his words, "thinking globally and acting locally". (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
PART ONE: Freedom From Morality and Religion (Genesis 1-3)
1. Introductory Remarks to Genesis 1-3
2. The First Creation Account
3. The Second Creation Account
4. The Break between God and Humanity
5. The Consequences of the Break between God and Humanity
PART TWO: The Love That Seeks Us Out
1. Introduction
2. Elihu (Chapters 32-37)
3. God's Appearance (Chapters 38-39)
4. The Two Beasts (Chapters 40-41)
5. Job's Conversion (Chapter 42)
6. Reconciliation (Chapter 42)
PART THREE: The Culmination of Judaism: The Kingdom of Love
1. Introduction
2. The First Three Parables (Matthew 13:1-43)
3. The Second Set of Parables (Matthew 13:44-50)
4. The Parable of Debtors (Matthew 18:23-35)
5. The Parable of Labourers' Wages (Matthew 20:1-26)
6. The Parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:1-14)
7. The Parables of the Virgins and the Talents (Matthew 25:1-30)
8. The Remaining References to the Kingdom of Heaven
PART FOUR: It Was All There in the Beginning
1. Love within the Beginning
Epilogue: History and Reconciliation
Index