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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.
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.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 228
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
31 August 2023
Trim Size: 5.98 X 8.98 in
ISBN: 9780227179369
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics, Christianity, Religious ethics
Volume II of To Will and To Do in French had never been published by Jacques Ellul, and the manuscript has been recently discovered and published in 2018. The work of translation in English has been so fast and excellent. . . . This is a very important piece of the ethical thought of Jacques Ellul.
— Frédéric Rognon, University of Strasbourg
Jake Marques Rollison's careful and fluid translation of these two volumes of Ellul's introduction to Christian ethics does an immense service to the French scholar's English-language readers, both new and old. The provision of such a splendid edition of this previously fractured, abridged, and neglected work will allow Ellul's singular vision of the nature and task of Christian ethics to be considered afresh. That Ellul's 'ethics of witness' is increasingly angular to leading trends in the field of theological ethics only heightens its provocation and makes it restatement in these new volumes all the more welcome.
— Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen
The appearance of this lost volume is the publishing event of the decade in theological ethics. Finally we have Ellul's own account of his relation to Barth as well as his understanding of Christian ethics as a prophetic vocation, to take two of the most exciting topics covered. Jacob Marques Rollison tells the remarkable story of how this volume resurfaced fifty years on, as well as why our understanding of Ellul will never be the same.
— Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen
— Frédéric Rognon, University of Strasbourg
Jake Marques Rollison's careful and fluid translation of these two volumes of Ellul's introduction to Christian ethics does an immense service to the French scholar's English-language readers, both new and old. The provision of such a splendid edition of this previously fractured, abridged, and neglected work will allow Ellul's singular vision of the nature and task of Christian ethics to be considered afresh. That Ellul's 'ethics of witness' is increasingly angular to leading trends in the field of theological ethics only heightens its provocation and makes it restatement in these new volumes all the more welcome.
— Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen
The appearance of this lost volume is the publishing event of the decade in theological ethics. Finally we have Ellul's own account of his relation to Barth as well as his understanding of Christian ethics as a prophetic vocation, to take two of the most exciting topics covered. Jacob Marques Rollison tells the remarkable story of how this volume resurfaced fifty years on, as well as why our understanding of Ellul will never be the same.
— Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen
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
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