Ellul biography
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Jacques Ellul()
Author, Professor, Sociologist, Theologian
Jacques Ellul, author and educator, was born an only child to Joseph and Marthe Ellul on January 6, From the age of fifteen, impoverishment compelled him to tutor Latin, French, German and Greek, earning his own and often his family’s livelihood.
He received no religious upbringing, his father a “complete Voltairian” and his mother a devout but uninsistent Protestant.
Ellul surname origin
Ellul’s family did possess a Bible, which he occasionally read. As a ten year-old Ellul came upon the pronouncement of Jesus, "I will make you fishers of men". He spoke of it as a "personal utterance" which "foretold an event".
As a young man he enjoyed unimpeded freedom exploring the port city of Bordeaux, befriending sailors and longshoremen.
Here was, he recalls, “…a totally astonishing milieu for a child; an environment that was very educational and, of course, rather dangerous, even though nothing ever happ