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Journal Articles

McCall, Bradford. “Pentecostalism and Science.” In St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of 

Theology (2026): By Invitation of St. Andrews Faculty (www.saet.ac.uk). 

McCall, Bradford. “Derrida & Non-Human Animals: An Exploration of Shared 

Animality.” Philosophy and Theology 35, no. 1 (2025): forthcoming. 

McCall, Bradford. “Amipotence Versus Amorepotence, Oord Versus McCall.” In

Amipotence: Support & Criticism, Expansion & Application, edited by Brandon Brown, Steve Fountain, and Chris Baker (Grasmere, ID: SacraSage Press, 2024): 119–25. https://www.amazon.com/Amipotence-Support-Criticism-Expansion-Application/dp/1958670839/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1QUK4WMOBIMX7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6VRNCEhNVQvexeyNDPfTBdF_CIYCX0z4udwBRlrM2cFEiKcbM9ACp_FlcJGe6Q1Q.VfHLIbLYu1cMMhrIfRR5_z8UPfEqNPbA1imDLN2jNDc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Thomas+Oord%2C+Amipotence&qid=1747864072&s=audible&sprefix=thomas+oord%2C+amipotence%2Caudible%2C120&sr=1-2-catcorr#

McCall, Bradford. “Augustine’s Theolog(ies) of Creation.” Studia Elckie 24 (2023): 

137–58. https://www.studiaelckie.pl/en/2-bez-kategorii/136-studia-elckie-25-2023-nr-2

McCall, Bradford. “Charles Sanders Peirce’s Evolutionary Developmental Teleology.” 

Studia Elckie 23, no. 3 (2021): 413–28. https://www.studiaelckie.pl/en/current-number/2-bez-kategorii/127-studia-elckie-23-2021-nr-3

McCall, Bradford. “Pan(en)theism and Paul Tillich: Mystical Immanence & Divine 

Involvement in an Evolutionary World.” In Why Tillich, Why Now?, ed. Thomas 

G. Bandy (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2021): 127–41. https://www.amazon.com/Why-Tillich-Now-Thomas-Bandy/dp/088146810X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=4C0PDISXR4NR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jUF_SbixFoZT6msWOeC_zAklCQSFeNLtUeKtGl7mutBTEYhKw7kAUwmp3soIcHtF.PdB022svF0wPg_tkAeWWH-caEGch1nOqjkx4XNZ0wAk&dib_tag=se&keywords=Why+Tillich%2C+Why+Now%3F&qid=1747864766&s=audible&sprefix=why+tillich%2C+why+now+%2Caudible%2C250&sr=1-1

McCall, Bradford. “Nygren & Oord on Love: A Critique.” Journal of Process Studies 

49, no. 2 (2020): 275–91. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article-abstract/49/2/275/211607/Nygren-and-Oord-on-Love-A-Critique?redirectedFrom=fulltext

McCall, Bradford. “Necessary, Kenotically-donated, & Self-giving Love.” Studia 

Elckie 21, no. 2 (2019): DOI: 10.32090/SE.210210. https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/article?articleId=2169385

McCall, Bradford. “Whitehead, Creativity, and the Immanently Creative Spirit.” 

Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 54, no. 2 (2019): 337–50. https://www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/14568/

McCall, Bradford. “The God of Chance and Purpose.” Theology and Science 17, no. 

1 (2019): 133–42. DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2017.1413815. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2017.1413815

Bradnick, David and Bradford McCall. “Making Sense of Emergence: A Critical 

Engagement with Leidenhag, Leidenhag, and Yong.” Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 53, no. 1 (2018): 240–57. https://www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/14460/

McCall, Bradford. “A Critical Analysis and Response to Hume from a Pneumatological 

Perspective.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 26, no. 2 (2017): 233–51. https://brill.com/configurable/content/journals$002fpent$002f26$002f1$002farticle-p110_9.xml?srsltid=AfmBOoqexdNMXVjr5CjqzeVI8UJPDE2HTvS2s2X3OeagSeuAt2WXewZ4

McCall, Bradford. “Causation, Vitalism, and Hume.” Philosophy and Theology 29, 

no. 2 (2017): 341–51. https://www.pdcnet.org/philtheol/content/philtheol_2017_0029_0002_0341_0351?file_type=pdf

McCall, Bradford. “Evolution, Emergence, and Final Causality: A Proposed 

Pneumatico–Theological Synthesis.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 52, no. 2 (2017): 148–64.

McCall, Bradford. “The God of Chance.” In Uncontrolling Love: Essays Exploring 

the Love of God, with Introductions by Thomas Jay Oord, eds. Chris Baker, Gloria Coffin, Craig Drurey, Graden Kirksey, Lisa Michaels, and Donna Ward (Nampa, ID: SacraSage Press, 2017): 221–24. https://www.amazon.com/Uncontrolling-Love-Essays-Exploring-Introductions-ebook/dp/B074MF2TBG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WKAEPJHYKVHV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5w5ysCIW06QkyXbaT_4pHiKxSYG779xEGOFp5zalENs.yWBTM0XljpIe6wn3dOZVZFHnPQv7F8w9DcY_ET5jwBs&dib_tag=se&keywords=Uncontrolling+Love%3A+Essays+Exploring+the+Love+of+God&qid=1747866666&sprefix=uncontrolling+love+essays+exploring+the+love+of+god%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1

McCall, Bradford. “Thomistic Personalism in Dialogue with Kenosis.” Studia Elckie 

19, no. 1 (2017): 21–32. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=564714

McCall, Bradford. “A Modern Relation of Theology and Science.” Wesleyan 

Theological Journal 51, no. 2 (2016): 156–73.

McCall, Bradford. “Aquinas, Teleology, and the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis.” Man 

In Culture 26 (2016): 375–95. http://www.czlowiekwkulturze.pl/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&id=6&Itemid=136&lang=pl

McCall, Bradford. “Moravian Brethren.” In The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, 

ed. George Kurian (Malden, MA: Wiley–Blackwell, 2013): 1572–76. https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Christian-Civilization-Set/dp/1405157623/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BE6IFYP6SCJI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.gjbCBXLc92Mbh5_M1FcnWQ.ue3LfNLr_7ObsS8aREH8e0cfdGQTB4f92IVbpVAPTBc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Kurian%2C+The+Encyclopedia+of+Christian+Civilization&qid=1747867237&sprefix=kurian%2C+the+encyclopedia+of+christian+civilization%2Caps%2C258&sr=8-1

McCall, Bradford. “Emergence and Kenosis: A Wesleyan Perspective.” In The Continuing 

Relevance of Wesleyan Theology: Essays in Honor of Laurence Wood, ed. Nathan Crawford (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011): 155–70. https://www.amazon.com/Continuing-Relevance-Wesleyan-Theology/dp/1498256686

McCall, Bradford. “A Contemporary Reappropriation of Baconian Common-Sense 

Realism in Renewal Hermeneutics.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 32 (2010): 223–40.

McCall, Bradford. “Emergence and Kenosis: A Theological Synthesis.” Zygon: Journal 

of Science and Religion 45, no. 1 (2010): 149–64. https://www.zygonjournal.org/issue/1118/info/

McCall, Bradford. “Emergence Theory and Theology: A Wesleyan–Relational 

Perspective.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 44, no. 2 (2009): 189–207.

McCall, Bradford. “The Pentecostal Reappropriation of Common–Sense Realism.” 

Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19, no. 1 (2009): 58–74. https://brill.com/view/journals/pent/19/1/article-p59_8.xml

McCall, Bradford. “Kenosis of the Spirit into Creation.” Crucible: Theology & Ministry 

1, no. 1 (May 2008).

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