Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), a French sociologist and lay theologian, was Professor Emeritus of Law and of the History and Sociology of Institutions at the University of Bordeaux. He wrote more than forty books, including ’The Technological Society’, ’The Humiliation of the Word’, and ’Technological Bluff’.
Marva J. Dawn, who serves, as did Jacques Ellul, as a bridge between the academic and lay worlds, is a theologian, speaker, and founder of Christians Equipped for Ministry, Vancouver, Washington. The author of several widely popular books, she wrote her doctoral dissertation on The Concept of ’The Principalities and Powers’ in the Works of Jacques Ellul.