Confidence in Life by Matthew Lee Anderson - 9780567710635

Confidence in LifeA Barthian Account of Procreation\nAuthor(s): Matthew Lee Anderson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780567710635, 978-0567710635\nSynopsis\nConfidence 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. \n\nThough 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 g.