On Freedom, Love, and Power

  • Year 2010
  • Type Commentary
  • Genre biblical studies
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language French

For For readers who want Ellul's Bible teaching in the spoken voice, on Genesis, Job, Matthew and John; not a scholarly commentary.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

Transcribed Bible talks on Genesis, Job, Matthew and John, about freedom, love and power.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 5 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.

A volume of Ellul's Bible talks, transcribed from recordings and edited and translated by Willem H. Vanderburg, a former student and colleague, and published by the University of Toronto Press in 2010; an expanded edition followed in 2015. The talks take up passages from Genesis, Job, Matthew and John and read them as addressing freedom, love and power in the modern world. Its companion volume is On Being Rich and Poor (2014).

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