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 edition 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.



Jacob Marques Rollison is an independent scholar living in Strasbourg, France. He holds a PhD in theological ethics from the University of Aberdeen, and is the editor of Jacques Ellul and the Bible (James Clarke & Co., 2022).



Volume I: An Introduction to Christian Ethics Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction: Rediscovering Ellul's Theological Ethics A Note on the Translation Part I: Origins 1. Knowledge of the Good 2. The Good 3. Morality Is of the Order of the Fall 4. Morality Is of the Order of Necessity 5. The Double Morality Part II: Morality of the World 1. Diversity of Moralities 2. Theoretical Moralities 3. Values 4. Lived Moralities 5. The Attitude of Man toward Morality: Moralism and Immoralism 6. Technical Morality Part III: The Impossibility and Necessity of a Christian Ethic 1. The Impossibility of a Christian Ethic 2. Historical Creation of Christian Moralities 3. The Necessity of a Christian Ethic Bibliography Name Index Scripture Index