Jacques Ellul Quotes

We Must Be Convinced That There Are No Such Things As 'Christian Principles.' There Is The Person Of Christ, Who Is The Principle Of Everything. But If We Wish To Be Faithful To Him, We Cannot Dream Of Reducing Christianity To It Certain Number Of Principles (though This Is Often Done), The Consequences Of Which Can Be Logically Deduced. This Tendency To Transform The Work Of The Living God Into A Philosophical Doctrine Is The Constant Temptation Of Theologians, And Also Of The Faithful, And Their Greatest Disloyalty When They Transform The Action Of The Spirit Which Brings Forth Fruit In Themselves Into An Ethic, A New Law, Into 'principles' Which Only Have To Be 'applied.

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