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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.
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
