Jacques Ellul’s book, The Meaning of the City(1970), a biblical study of cities from Genesis to Revelation and widely recognized as one of the most important twentieth century theological reflections on the city, was one of his most controversial scholarly contributions. Many urbanists interpreted the book as demeaning the city and diminishing the importance of urban policy, planning, design, architecture, and activism at a time when cities around the world had experience profound crises. But following Ellul’s critique of New Urbanism on the grounds of technology, I show how his work also critiques New Urbanism on the grounds of theology. New Urbanism is by far the most significant theory of town planning since Modernist visions of urban form in the early 20th century. Here, I assess New Urbanism through the lens of Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society(1954) and The Meaning of the City. This article reexamines The Meaning of the City and its relevance to twenty-first century urbanism.