The social body that had been effectively threatened by the diffusion of a faith that bordered on anarchism, on a total lack of interest in worldly matters (administration, commerce, etc.), … reacted in self-defense and absorbed the foreign body, making it serve its own ends.


p. 21 - The Subversion of Christianity (1984)

Jacques Ellul Quotes

The social body that had been effectively threatened by the diffusion of a faith that bordered on anarchism, on a total lack of interest in worldly...

The social body that had been effectively threatened by the diffusion of a faith that bordered on anarchism, on a total lack of interest in worldly...

The social body that had been effectively threatened by the diffusion of a faith that bordered on anarchism, on a total lack of interest in worldly...

The social body that had been effectively threatened by the diffusion of a faith that bordered on anarchism, on a total lack of interest in worldly...