Confidence in Life

A Barthian Account of Procreation

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Matthew Lee Anderson, USA) Anderson, Matthew Lee (Baylor University, Brian Brock

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-24
Mått154 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieT&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567710680

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IntroductionChapter One: (Procreative) Neutrality is Not EnoughChapter Two: Parenthood and Procreative Bonds Chapter Three: The “Gift of Life”: Luck, the Involuntary, and Procreative AgencyChapter Four: Neither Optimism nor Pessimism: Karl Barth Among the Moral PhilosophersChapter Five: Birth Between the Times: Procreation in the Doctrine of CreationChapter Six: Respect for Life as a Reason to CreateChapter Seven: Mary and the Eschatological Confirmation of Procreative BondsChapter Eight: Honour, Agency, and Reasons to ProcreateConclusion:The Meaning of Procreative FideismBibliographyIndex

In the face of the threats of climate change, population growth, and mass migration, the issue of whether to have children, and why, is rising in salience not only in academic philosophy, but also in wider popular discourse. In his book Matthew Anderson brings a searching intelligence, analytical tenacity, lucid thinking, and a lively pen to the task of working out a thoroughly theological response to the question, and one that counters ‘procreative pessimism’ with Christian hope. This is a work of unusually high intellectual caliber.