Confidence in Life

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 Barths doctrine of (pro)creation. While analytic moral philosophy has rarely been brought into close proximity to Barths work, the conjunction underscores the deep difficulty of accounting for procreations value within non-theological frameworks, and helps clarify what is distinctive and valuable about Barths own moral reasoning on this subject. Though primarily staged as an intervention in Protestant moral theology, Confidence in Lifes rehabilitation of the Virgin Marys role in Barths thought has promise for an ecumenical retrieval of the good of procreating within the economy of redemptionand its retrieval of honour as an indispensable aspect of Barths theology will be of interest to Barth scholars and moral theologians alike.