Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word

Jacques Ellul (1912-94) was a professor, sociologist, and Protestant lay theologian, primarily known for his work on technology, propaganda, and Christian anarchism. Other Jacques Ellul titles published by James Clarke & Co. include To Will and To Do, Volumes I and II (2023), and Presence in the Modern World (2017).Michael Morelli is Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Northwest Seminary and College, a founding member of ACTS Seminaries, and an affiliate of Trinity Western University.

"Jacques Ellul is a gift who keeps on giving. The great French sociologist has seen clearly (and before the rest of us) the toxic dangers of modern technological development... This book is an important probe into Ellul, and a shrewd discernment about what serious faith requires and makes possible when we are woke to the undercurrents of the power of death that are all around us."-Walter Brueggemann, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary"From the biblical topic of desert to modern desert and spiritual wilderness in our lives, this book is a fascinating course between void and voice, fullness and silence, death and life, on the way to the real life which rises from void and death. Jacques Ellul and several high experts on Ellulian thought lead us along this hard road. A nourishing, thirst-quenching and essential book!"-Frédéric Rognon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg"Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word is a wonderful collection of essays, a gift not just to Jacques Ellul scholars but to thoughtful readers, especially Christians, everywhere. As Ellul provided us with a fully-developed biblical study of The Meaning of the City in 1970, so he provides here an insightful collection of insights and challenges about 'the meaning of desert and wilderness'-thanks to the careful reconstruction of his notes by Jean-Philippe Qadri and Jerome Ellul. This is an extraordinary and timely book."-David W. Gill, president, International Jacques Ellul Society

• IntroductionInto the Desert, Wilderness, and Wasteland: A Word of Warning and Encouragement Concerning In/Visible Life and Death by Michael MorelliChapter OneThe Desert by Jacques EllulChapter TwoThe Man-Made Wasteland: A Cartography by Amy EricksonChapter ThreeThe Desert: Recapitulating and Going Beyond Ellul by Gregory WagenfuhrChapter FourWatching and Managing in the Wasteland by Emily Beth HillChapter FiveWilderness Theology and Degrowth by Jason HudsonChapter SixHearing the Void, Responding to the Voice: Ethics for Living and Dying in the Desert by Jacob Marques Rolliso