Exciting and original ... maybe not search enough

This is a test that reads easily, perhaps too easily, compared with other writings Ellul offering more resistance.
Sketch a parallel between Christianity and Anarchism may seem daring, but in fact that is all the same parallels that can cross ... it qu'Anars and Christians ignore, of course.
A good introduction to what (and what not) anarchism and anarchists grievances against Christian communities. Complaints that the author is based, recognizing there an element of mutual misunderstanding.
Also a clear point: the impossibility of a society without temporal power in this world, as the human is afraid of freedom, and in particular in France supposedly rebellious, as we want and need "saviors "policies, which of course impostors savèrent.
The author seeks to provide leads in the light of his faith and his reflection. In reformed Christian, he offers profoundly free speech: the Protestant church can judge the useful (or inevitable, for lack of better), it is also the one who remains standing, sometimes alone, facing his God, cursing the necessary, like the heretics of the Desert.
The writers of the Hebrew Bible are not generally kind to the temporal power. The author just refers to the beginning of the book of Samuel, "establishment" of kingship within Israel, YHWH lese if any. This reflection is the one of the lay of the Deuteronomistic school, and runs throughout the history "holy". You wanted a king, paying in the price! It does not take long to get to the ambiguity of a Solomon, the schism ... and Exile, which will end this failed experiment, reread and strongly criticized by LIVE prophets and post-exilic writers.
Jesus' attitude with respect to powers is unambiguous and clear demonstration of Ellul.
More complex is the reading of the NT writers and I think qu'Ellul can not completely eliminate this ambiguity of Paul against the powers.
There will always be for me a "mystery Paul" complex man, very clear in his theology of justification free ... and yet so dull, so weary, so "boring" sometimes in writings to Timothy or Titus ...

The author posed briefly and of course, the question of political commitment. No illusions, this is not that policies are rotten, but that power in itself reveals baseness, depravity, denials before the financial power. Singular acuity of the author in his visceral rejection of economic liberalism, devious enemy of freedom, which takes a singular tone nowadays in which Europe is increasingly gray.

In short, this short essay opens thoughts I'd never really do, and just for here, Mr Ellul, be thanked for.

Updated February 26, 2015