Author: Jacques Ellul
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1606089722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At what point does a theology become an ideology? How can a Christian distinguish the two? Jacques Ellul has always taken pains to differentiate them, but in this book he provides both a theoretical framework and important examples. Some popular theologies, particularly those that attempt to intertwine biblical theology with Marxist thought, fall into the trap of reaching "theological" conclusions by other means, Ellul believes, so that we cannot consider them as true theologies. From both a biblical-theological and sociopolitical perspective Ellul examines the attempt to relate Christianity to Marxist thought. By reviewing in detail several key Marxist-Christian books, Ellul exposes the weaknesses of so-called Marxist Christianity (which he says is neither Marxist nor Christian), and argues that the biblical perspective takes exception to all political power, leaving Christian anarchism as the realistic revolutionary option. The preface by translator Joyce Main Hanks provides an excellent introduction to the book, showing how it fits into Ellul's thought and how it relates to Ellul's previous work.
Author: Jean-François Revel
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean-François Revel
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1594032645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An English translation of Jean-Francois Revel's 1999 essay in which he examines the response of French intellectuals to the collapse of Soviet communism in the decade after its end.
Author: Jean-François Revel
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594030604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After the 9/11 attack, a wave of sympathy for the United States quickly receded and gave way to blame. In France and other quarters of Europe, it was said that the Americans had brought this violence upon themselves by inhabiting a "cowboy" country whose corporations manipulated world markets and whose riches were acquired at the price of Third World impoverishment.
Author: Jose Porfirio Miranda
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-01-23
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1592444857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint. Originally published: Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1974.
Author: Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Publisher: Summit University Press
Published: 2019-06-11
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781609883188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jim Bissett
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780806134277
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why was Oklahoma, of all places, more hospitable to socialism than any other state in America? In this provocative book, Jim Bissett chronicles the rise and fall of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma during the first two decades of the twentieth century, when socialism in the United States enjoyed its golden age. To explain socialism’s popularity in Oklahoma, Bissett looks back to the state’s strong tradition of agrarian reform. Drawing most of its support from working farmers, the Socialist Party of Oklahoma was rooted in such well-established organizations as the Farmers Alliance and the Indiahoma Farmers’ Union. And to broaden its appeal, the Party borrowed from the ideology both of the American Revolution and of Christianity. By making Marxism speak in American terms, the author argues, Party activists counteracted the prevailing notion that socialism was illegitimate or un-American.