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A fresh breeze is blowing through Ellul scholarship in the wake of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Matthew Prior's vigorous contribution to that burgeoning discussion highlights the importance of several previously unknown writings by Ellul. He offers a reparative reading of Ellul's incisive theology that has much to offer contemporary Christians concerned faithfully to navigate the paradoxes of this technological age. --Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen Matthew Prior's Confronting Technology: The Theology of Jacques Ellul is nothing less than a masterpiece by a brilliant young emerging scholar. . . . Prior's command of the truly massive and complex Ellul oeuvre (new discoveries coming almost every year since Ellul's death in 1994) is matched by his critical-appreciative interaction with a comprehensive gallery of secondary research and authorship, in both French and English. Confronting Technology is a brilliant tour through the creative thought of Ellul but moves beyond Ellul to suggest exciting directions for today's theological confrontation with technology. All readers of Ellul and all students of theology and technology should put this book on the top of their reading list. It really is that good. --David W. Gill, International Jacques Ellul Society Never has there been a greater need to think deeply and theologically about technology and its power. Navigating the work of a writer who is notoriously complex, Confronting Technology explores Jacques Ellul's contribution to this debate with rare clarity, insight, and sensitivity and so provides an outstanding new resource for digital theology today. Without providing simplistic answers, Prior shows us how Ellul read the Bible and culture together--and invites us to do the same. --Philip Plyming, Durham University

A fresh breeze is blowing through Ellul scholarship in the wake of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Matthew Prior's vigorous contribution to that burgeoning discussion highlights the importance of several previously unknown writings by Ellul. He offers a reparative reading of Ellul's incisive theology that has much to offer contemporary Christians concerned faithfully to navigate the paradoxes of this technological age. --Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen Matthew Prior's Confronting Technology: The Theology of Jacques Ellul is nothing less than a masterpiece by a brilliant young emerging scholar. . . . Prior's command of the truly massive and complex Ellul oeuvre (new discoveries coming almost every year since Ellul's death in 1994) is matched by his critical-appreciative interaction with a comprehensive gallery of secondary research and authorship, in both French and English. Confronting Technology is a brilliant tour through the creative thought of Ellul but moves beyond Ellul to suggest exciting directions for today's theological confrontation with technology. All readers of Ellul and all students of theology and technology should put this book on the top of their reading list. It really is that good. --David W. Gill, International Jacques Ellul Society Never has there been a greater need to think deeply and theologically about technology and its power. Navigating the work of a writer who is notoriously complex, Confronting Technology explores Jacques Ellul's contribution to this debate with rare clarity, insight, and sensitivity and so provides an outstanding new resource for digital theology today. Without providing simplistic answers, Prior shows us how Ellul read the Bible and culture together--and invites us to do the same. --Philip Plyming, Durham University

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Matthew T. Prior is an ordained minister in the Church of England and is Tutor and Lecturer in Ethics at St. Mellitus College, London, UK. He has an academic background in French language and literature and is a member of the International Jacques Ellul Society. This is his first book.

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