New Reading of Jacques Ellul - Presence and Communication in the Postmodern World

A New Reading of Jacques Ellul argues for presence as a hermeneutical key to understanding the origins and evolution of Ellul's theological ethics. Highlighting Ellul's engagement with Michel Foucault, this book offers a constructive proposal for a robustly Protestant theological communication ethics.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Rollison, Jacob Marques Rollison
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781793604347
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-434-7
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics, Christianity, Religious ethics