Confidence in Life

<b><i>Confidence in Life</i> 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.</b> 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. <br/><br/>Though primarily staged as an intervention in Protestant moral theology <i>Confidence in Life's</i> 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.