In the dying days of my work for the county council I had begun to read several things by Jacques Ellul – his books and some crit by other keenos. Ellul was an academic, an expert in medieval law, and a rare breed – a prominent French Protestant in a country that thinks of religion as dodgy and anything not Catholic as a weird cult! He was also something like an anarchist, in the technical sense.
Many of his works are online…
http://www.jesusradicals.com/library/ellul.php
And there is a ton of fodder here, too (the CD of back issues is very cheap)…
http://www.ellul.org/forum.htm