To Will and To Do Vol I

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-227-17934-5
Verlag: James Clarke & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

A new translation of Jacques Ellul's landmark theological contribution, including the second volume in English for the first time.

In To Will and To Do, twentieth-century French thinker Jacques Ellul presented his landmark theological contribution, yet the full text has never before been available in English. Incorporating recent insights on Ellul, and benefitting from the discovery of a lost manuscript, this new publication remedies this, combining a fresh translation of Volume One with a first English translation of Volume Two. Together, the two volumes constitute the first part of Ellul's planned four-part treatment of Christian ethics.

In Volume One, Ellul examines the origin of the problem of Good and Evil, surveys the contemporary morality of Western society, and provocatively sketches the paradox of an impossible and yet necessary Christian ethics. In Volume Two, he carries this discussion forward, outlining the characteristics and conditions of Christian ethics, and analysing the relationship between ethics, the legal texts of the Bible, and dogmatic theology. He concludes by reimagining the theological use of the 'analogy of faith' for scriptural interpretation. Throughout, Ellul remains in dialogue with Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Ricoeur and others, helping to cement To Will and To Do as a major intervention in twentieth-century theological ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellul, Jacques

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Translator's Introduction: Rediscovering Ellul's Theological Ethics 1
A Note on the Translation 13

Part I: Origins 17
1 Knowledge of the Good 19
2 The Good 34
3 Morality Is of the Order of the Fall 49
4 Morality Is of the Order of Necessity 67
5 The Double Morality 79

Part II: Morality of the World 113
1 Diversity of Moralities 118
2 Theoretical Moralities 126
3 Values 137
4 Lived Moralities 151
5 The Attitude of Man toward Morality: Moralism and Immoralism 162
6 Technical Morality 172

Part III: The Impossibility and Necessity of a Christian Ethic 183
1 The Impossibility of a Christian Ethic 185
2 Historical Creation of Christian Moralities 208
3 The Necessity of a Christian Ethic 224

Bibliography 243
Name Index 247
Scripture Index 251