Confidence in Life - A Barthian Account of Procreation

Confidence in Life offers a theologically-robust evaluation of the good of procreation, which emerges out of both careful interactions with contemporary analytic philosophy and a reconstructed reading of Karl Barth''s doctrine of (pro)creation. While analytic moral philosophy has rarely been brought into close proximity to Barth''s work, the conjunction underscores the deep difficulty of accounting for procreation''s value within non-theological frameworks, and helps clarify what is distinctive and valuable about Barth''s own moral reasoning on this subject. Though primarily staged as an intervention in Protestant moral theology, Confidence in Life''s rehabilitation of the Virgin Mary''s role in Barth''s thought has promise for an ecumenical retrieval of the good of procreating within the economy of redemption-and its retrieval of honour as an indispensable aspect of Barth''s theology will be of interest to Barth scholars and moral theologians alike.>

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter One:
(Procreative) Neutrality is Not Enough

Chapter Two:
Parenthood and Procreative Bonds

Chapter Three:
The "Gift of Life": Luck, the Involuntary, and Procreative Agency

Chapter Four:
Neither Optimism nor Pessimism: Karl Barth Among the Moral Philosophers

Chapter Five:
Birth Between the Times: Procreation in the Doctrine of Creation

Chapter Six:
Respect for Life as a Reason to Create

Chapter Seven:
Mary and the Eschatological Confirmation of Procreative Bonds

Chapter Eight:
Honour, Agency, and Reasons to Procreate

Conclusion:
The Meaning of Procreative Fideism

Bibliography
Index

About the author

Matthew Lee Anderson is Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Baylor University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Lee Anderson, Anderson Matthew Lee
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9780567710680
• ISBN: 978-0-567-71068-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; World, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Eschatology, Theology, Christian theology, RELIGION: Eschatology