"Interviewer: Isn't there an underlying tone of extreme pessimism? Is it so absurd to think that technology can be used for good? Scaraffia: Jacques Ellul didn't think so. For him, it was simply impossible. He even lived in the countryside to protect himself from the effects of progress. His observations on technology are certainly marked by pessimism. But his conception of the world is animated by Christian optimism. He was convinced that God acts in history and that, therefore, He will intervene to save man from himself. There is a tendency to separate his philosophical and sociological writings from his theological ones. But for him, the relationship with technology is inextricably linked to that with God. And, in particular, to the function that God has entrusted to man in the world: that of knowing but not destroying, of dominating reality while respecting it, of aspiring to the best while preserving a sense of limits."
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From an interview with Paolo Nessi, “'Ellul: against relentless technicality, faith in Providence”', “'ilsussidiario.net”', 13 February 2009.
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