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The Presence of the Kingdom

by Jacques Ellul · 1948

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This new edition of Ellul's seminal work, first published in 1948, brings back into print the volume considered "the necessary primer for all Ellul study." In "The Presence of the Kingdom," Ellul calls upon Christians to be a radical presence in the world, opposing its will to death with a revolutionary way of life that brings the transforming power of the gospel to bear upon all dimensions of individual as well as collective human existence.

Subject
philosophypoliticssociology
Themes
religionchristianmoralitycommunication
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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