Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 337 g
Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 337 g
ISBN: 978-0-227-17936-9
Verlag: James Clarke & Co.
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 Two, 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.
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Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction: A Prophet for the Twenty-First Century
A Note on the Translation
Part IV: Conditions and Characteristics of a Christian Ethic
1. Choice and Guidance
2. An Ethic for the Person
3. A Communal Ethic
4. An Immediate Ethic
5. A Specific Ethic
6. An Ethic of Contradictions
7. An Ethic of Means
8. An Eschatological Ethic
Part V: The Content of Ethics
Section I: Ethics and the Law
1. The Gospel and the Law
2. The Accomplishment of the Law
3. The Function of the Law in Ethics
Section II: Ethics and Theology
1. Ethics and Dogmatics
2. Ethics and Christian Principles
3. On Interpreting the Ethical Texts of the Bible
Bibliography
Name Index
Scripture Index
