Anarchy and Christianity - Jacques Ellul - Books - Wipf & Stock Publishers - 9781606089712 - May 18, 2011
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Anarchy and Christianity

Jacques Ellul

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Anarchy and Christianity

Jacques Ellul blends politics, theology, history, and exposition in this analysis of the relationship between political anarchy and biblical faith. On the one hand, suggests Ellul, anarchists need to understand that much of their criticism of Christianity applies only to the form of religion that developed, not to biblical faith. Christians, on the other hand, need to look at the biblical texts and not reject anarchy as a political option, for it seems closest to biblical thinking. Ellul here defines anarchy as the nonviolent repudiation of authority. He looks at the Bible as the source of anarchy (in the sense of nondomination, not disorder), working through the Old Testament history, Jesus' ministry, and finally the early church's view of power as reflected in the New Testament writings. "With the verve and the gift of trenchant simplification to which we have been accustomed, Ellul lays bare the fallacy that Christianity should normally be the ally of civil authority." -John Howard Yoder


126 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 18, 2011
ISBN13 9781606089712
Publishers Wipf & Stock Publishers
Pages 126
Dimensions 215 × 142 × 9 mm   ·   158 g
Language English  
Contributor Geoffrey W. Bromiley

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