Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World

Year 1980
Type Book
Genre theology
Tradition Reformed
Original language French

For For readers who want Ellul on the difference between faith and belief in a sceptical age; not for a reader wanting reassurance without questions.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 3 of 5 demanding

Faith set against belief: belief is a human need society readily satisfies, faith a response to the Word of God that includes doubt.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 3 of 5
Scriptural 3 of 5
Experiential 3 of 5
Sociological 3 of 5
Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published by Hachette in 1980 with the subtitle Encore quarante jours, taken from Jonah's message to Nineveh, and translated by Peter Heinegg as Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World (Harper and Row, 1983). Ellul distinguishes faith from belief: belief is a natural human need that modern society satisfies with substitutes of its own, while faith answers the Word of God and includes doubt. The book weighs the crisis of the modern world against that distinction.

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