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Jacques Ellul on Violence, Resistance, and War
edited by
Jeffrey M. Shaw
&
Timothy J. Demy
Jacques Ellul on Violence, Resistance, and War
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Jacques Ellul on violence, resistance, and war / edited by Jeffrey M. Shaw and Timothy J. Demy.
xvi + pp. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index(es).
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. Ellul, Jacques, 19121994 Political and social views.. ViolenceReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Shaw, Jeffrey M. II. Demy, Timothy J. III. Title.
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Acknowledgments
T here are many people who helped put this book together, whether providing encouragement, or in formulating the idea to actually publish a book on Jacques Ellul and war. First among these is Tim Demy, friend and colleague at the Naval War College, and co-editor of this volume. It was his idea to bring together the leading scholars studying Ellul and those continuing to apply Elluls methodology in the twenty-first century. It is thanks to him that this book is in print.
Few books on Ellul see the light of day without David Gills active involvement. President of the International Jacques Ellul Society, David not only encouraged the project, but gave me permission to use articles that had previously been published in the Ellul Forum over the years. By doing so, readers can now reference articles on the topic of Ellul and war in a single volume.
Christian Amondson at Wipf and Stock has, as always, provided helpful oversight of this project, along with Brian Palmer, Laura Poncy, Ted Lewis, Joshua Little, and Calvin Jaffarian. Thanks are also due to the entire Wipf and Stock team, to include copy editors, cover designers, marketers, and contracting personnel.
Other Ellul scholars, friends, and colleagues who helped bring this volume to print include Lisa Richmond, who diligently reviewed and provided editing and stylistic suggestions for some of the following chapters. Thanks also to Allyson Rogers, Kent Walker, Bernard Bouyssou, Jerome Ellul, Sylvie Justome, Pierre Castro, and especially Daniel and Anita Cerezuelle for their hospitality and conversation as hosts to visiting Ellulians in the summer of 2015 .
Contributors
Andy Alexis-Baker holds a PhD in theology from Marquette University and teaches theology and religious studies at Arrupe College at Loyola University Chicago. He is co-editor of A Faith Embracing All Creatures: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Care for Animals ( 2012 ) and A Faith Encompassing All Creation: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Care for the Environment ( 2014 ) in the Peaceable Kingdom series with Cascade Books. His current research is on Christian theology and nonhuman animals.
Stanley Uche Anozie holds a philosophy teaching position at Sacred Heart College of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He had his Bachelors of Philosophy and Theology at Seat of Wisdom Seminary Nigeria, an affiliate institute of Pontifical Urban University, Rome. He obtained his PhD from the Dominican University College of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa, Canada. Anozie has written some selected published works: The Impact of Christianity in African Development so far in Africa and the Challenges of the 21st Century (Enwisdomization Journal, ), Human Rights and Terrorism: Nigeria-Niger Delta Oil War in Morality and Terrorism (Nortia Press, 2012 ), and Aristotles Phronesis: an influence on Gadamers Hermeneutical Circle and Philosophical Hermeneutics (Brill Publishers, forthcoming). Anozie is an International Editorial and Advisory Board Member of Alternative Perspectives and Global Concerns (APGC), a Scholarly Organization based in Ottawa, Canada. He is also a member of American Philosophical Association (APA, Eastern Division).
Mark D. Baker is professor of mission and theology at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. He was a missionary in Honduras for ten years. He has authored books in Spanish and English, including Religious No More: Building Communities of Grace and Freedom which utilizes Elluls work. While completing his M.A. at New College Berkeley he studied Ellul with David Gill and Vernard Eller and he completed a PhD in theology and ethics at Duke University.
Timothy J. Demy is Professor of Military Ethics at the US Naval War College. Prior to his faculty appointment at the Naval War College, he served as a Navy chaplain for years holding assignments afloat and ashore with the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. He received a ThD in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in Humanities from Salve Regina University. He also completed the Master of Studies in international relations from the University of Cambridge and the Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and books on a variety of historical, ethical, and theological subjects. He also serves as the American managing editor of the Journal of Military Ethics.
Peter K. Fallon is Professor of Media Studies at Roosevelt University. He is the author of three books; Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English (winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in 2007 ), The Metaphysics of Media: Toward an End to Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality (winner of the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Technology, 2010 ), and Cultural Defiance, Cultural Deviance . A former editor ( 2009 ) of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology , the international scholarly journal of the Media Ecology Association, Fallon serves on the editorial board of Second Nature , an online journal for critical study of technology and new media from a Christian perspective.
David Gill wrote his PhD dissertation on The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul at the University of Southern California and has published countless reviews, essays, comments, and book notes on Ellul over the past forty years. He is founding president ( 2000 ) of the International Jacques Ellul Society and after a forty year career as professor of business ethics and theological ethics is now a writer based in Berkeley/Oakland, California.
Andrew Goddard is a Senior Research Fellow of the Kirby Laing Institute of Christian Ethics, Cambridge, UK. He did his doctorate on Jacques Ellul, which was published as Living the Word, Resisting the World (Paternoster, 2003 ) and is a director of the International Jacques Ellul Society.
