To Will and to Do

The first part of the introduction to the Christian ethics Ellul planned, published by Labor et Fides in Geneva in 1964 under the subtitle Recherches éthiques pour les chrétiens: Introduction (première partie). Ellul argues, in the line of Karl Barth, that morality as a human system is a product of the fall, and that Christian ethics cannot be another moral code but must begin from God's free grace and command. Its title is taken from Philippians 2:13. It was translated by C. Edward Hopkin as To Will and to Do (Pilgrim Press, 1969) and newly by Jacob Marques Rollison as volume one of To Will & to Do (2020). The later parts of the introduction were published only in 2018, as Les sources de l'éthique chrétienne.