From Cain's rebellion and the birth of the City to the New Jerusalem and the reign of Christ, the history of humanity is the struggle between Jesus and technology.Hidden in his expansive theological and sociological writings, is Jacque Ellul's analysis of the ongoing spiritual tension between Jesus and the dominant power of society, technique. Jesus and the City outlines the Ellulian characteristics of technique as embodied in the biblical city and sets them against the spiritual reality of the person Jesus Christ.