“I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.”

Interview in Le Monde (1981), as quoted in "A short biography of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)" by Patrick Chastenet, as translated by Lesley Graham http://www.ellul.org/bio_e1.html

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French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994

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