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To will & to do : an introduction to Christian ethics. Volume I / Jacques Ellul ; translated by Jacob Marques Rollison.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (vii, 253 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 1532676166
  • 9781532676161
  • 9781532676147
  • 153267614X
Uniform titles:
  • Vouloir et le faire. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: To will & to do : an introduction to Christian ethics. Volume 1.DDC classification:
  • 241 23
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  • BJ1251 .E413 2020eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Translator's introduction: Rediscovering Ellul's theological ethics -- Part I. Origins -- Knowledge of the good -- The good -- Morality is of the order of the fall -- Morality is of the order of necessity -- The double morality -- Part II. Morality of the world -- Diversity of moralities -- Theoretical moralities -- Values -- Lived moralities -- The attitude of man toward morality: moralism and immoralism -- Technical morality -- Part III. The impossibility and necessity of a Christian ethic -- The impossibility of a Christian ethic -- Historical creation of Christian moralities -- The necessity of a Christian ethic.
Summary: To Will & To Do presents one of the most significant theological contributions of the dynamic twentieth-century thinker Jacques Ellul. Benefiting from recent scholarship on Ellul and a discovery of a lost manuscript, this new edition renders the full text available in English for the first time, combining a fresh translation of Volume I with a first English translation of Volume II. Together, the two volumes constitute the introductory first part of Ellul's planned four-part treatment of Christian ethics. Volume I examines the origin of the problem of Good and Evil, outlines the contemporary morality of Western society, and provocatively sketches the paradox of an impossible and yet necessary Christian ethics. Volume II carries this discussion forward, outlining the characteristics and conditions of Christian ethics. It then treats the relationship between ethics and the legal texts of the Bible, the relationship between ethics and dogmatic theology, and concludes by reimagining the theological use of the "analogy of faith" for scriptural interpretation. In constant dialogue with Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Ricoeur, and many other theologians and philosophers, To Will & To Do constitutes a major intervention in twentieth-century theological ethics. -- back cover
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2667218

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and indexes.

Translator's introduction: Rediscovering Ellul's theological ethics -- Part I. Origins -- Knowledge of the good -- The good -- Morality is of the order of the fall -- Morality is of the order of necessity -- The double morality -- Part II. Morality of the world -- Diversity of moralities -- Theoretical moralities -- Values -- Lived moralities -- The attitude of man toward morality: moralism and immoralism -- Technical morality -- Part III. The impossibility and necessity of a Christian ethic -- The impossibility of a Christian ethic -- Historical creation of Christian moralities -- The necessity of a Christian ethic.

To Will & To Do presents one of the most significant theological contributions of the dynamic twentieth-century thinker Jacques Ellul. Benefiting from recent scholarship on Ellul and a discovery of a lost manuscript, this new edition renders the full text available in English for the first time, combining a fresh translation of Volume I with a first English translation of Volume II. Together, the two volumes constitute the introductory first part of Ellul's planned four-part treatment of Christian ethics. Volume I examines the origin of the problem of Good and Evil, outlines the contemporary morality of Western society, and provocatively sketches the paradox of an impossible and yet necessary Christian ethics. Volume II carries this discussion forward, outlining the characteristics and conditions of Christian ethics. It then treats the relationship between ethics and the legal texts of the Bible, the relationship between ethics and dogmatic theology, and concludes by reimagining the theological use of the "analogy of faith" for scriptural interpretation. In constant dialogue with Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Ricoeur, and many other theologians and philosophers, To Will & To Do constitutes a major intervention in twentieth-century theological ethics. -- back cover