Bradford McCall

This new prayer manual, which moves through a monthly cycle, provides thirty-one prayerful readings to be read daily. Of course, since not all months have thirty-one days, it is designed to be prayed through for twenty-seven days plus the final day of prayer for February, and so forth. The manual is composed of enough repetition in content to be comfortable but with enough variety to be nonredundant in its elements. The theology of this prayer manual is key to its importance and its necessity. Far too often, prayer manuals are theologically light. This manual counters this trend with robust theology over its thirty-one days of prayerful readings. Each day has ten different components: four that are different each day and six that remain constant. 1.The week/day overview: varies 2.Opening prayer (week/day): varies 3.Prayer of confession--"Wash me" (week/day): remains constant 4.Prayer for illumination (week/day): varies 5.Prayer of exhortation (week/day): varies 6.Anima Christi prayer (week/day): remains constant 7."Christ be near" (week/day): remains constant 8.Covenant prayer (week/day): remains constant 9.The Gloria (week/day): remains constant 10."Glory be" (week/day): remains constant

What are the things that God values in the creative process? How does one define God's activity in such a world? How is God's involvement different from a contingent--what this author labels contingentist--instance? Why do we need a God-idea at all? Herein, Bradford McCall addresses how divine, amorepotent love works with and within a contingentist (i.e., radically contingent) evolutionary theory and worldview. Within the course of this project, he reaches a via media between the (somewhat) radical formalist position of Simon Conway Morris and the veritably radical contingent position of Stephen Jay Gould. But . . . how is the contingentist amorepotent and uncontrolling love of God understood as purposeful? McCall argues in detail that there in fact is some sort of purposiveness that is nevertheless working in a chastened Gouldian position, and he distinguishes between contingency and veritable divine involvement. He contends that God does not insist upon a particular outcome but merely allows propensities to work themselves out. God amorepotently loves the population of the natural world into greater forms of complexity, relationality, and beauty in varied and multifarious forms, along with the extension of diversity.

This brief title will pursue a triangulation of chance, divine involvement, and theology through a fundamentally Peircean lens--at least epistemologically and semiotically. The argument proceeds over five distinct chapters, and a conclusion that constitutes a sixth chapter. In Part I, I discuss the Modern Synthetic theory in evolutionary biology. In particular, I refer to what I have labeled the secular evolutionary worldview (SEW). Also in Part I, I dismiss the French physicist Pierre-Simon de Laplace's claim that a sufficiently informed intelligence could forecast everything that is going to happen in the whole universe--and, working backwards, tell you everything that did happen, not by direct citation and rebuke, but rather by implicit argumentation and demonstration of the God of Chance. In Part II of this book, I explore the God of chance and purpose, with theological assists provided by Philip Clayton and Alister McGrath over two chapters. So then, we live in a world of both chance and purpose. One may even go so far as to state that this world is designed for both chance and purpose.

Should we attempt to understand (macro-)evolutionary biology, in the twenty-first century, as secular or sacred? This book will attempt to answer this question by exploring the secular evolutionary worldview, the author's view of kenotic-causation, Whitehead's views on chance, Derrida's views on non-human animals, a statement upon the God of chance and purpose, Augustine's various theologies of creation, a decidedly non-dualistic (macro-)evolution, a provocative thesis regarding evolutionary Christology, the connection between kenosis and emergence, and an explication of both Anders Nygren and Thomas Jay Oord's views of love in the contemporary environ. It also develops the author's personal view regarding necessary, kenotically-donated, and self-giving love, and argues that kenosis and emergence can add to the discussion of understanding the theology-science-love symbiosis. It advocates and explicates herein a monistic process-based view of the overlapping relationship between theology and science.

Should we attempt to understand (macro-)evolutionary biology, in the twenty-first century, as secular or sacred? This book will attempt to answer this question by exploring the secular evolutionary worldview, the author's view of kenotic-causation, Whitehead's views on chance, Derrida's views on non-human animals, a statement upon the God of chance and purpose, Augustine's various theologies of creation, a decidedly non-dualistic (macro-)evolution, a provocative thesis regarding evolutionary Christology, the connection between kenosis and emergence, and an explication of both Anders Nygren and Thomas Jay Oord's views of love in the contemporary environ. It also develops the author's personal view regarding necessary, kenotically-donated, and self-giving love, and argues that kenosis and emergence can add to the discussion of understanding the theology-science-love symbiosis. It advocates and explicates herein a monistic process-based view of the overlapping relationship between theology and science.

How should we attempt to understand the relationship between theology and science in the twenty-first century? In this book, I will attempt to answer this question by examining several previous attempts to classify this relationship. I also develop my personal view of the relation, thereafter discussing some Catholic contributions to this project, and then revisit some of my previously published material, highlighting the role of panentheism therein, and noting an emergent implication from the literature: the resultant possibilities for God--an implication that creates space for a broadly relational perspective of the process of emergence. These movements allow me to argue that kenosis and emergence can add to the discussion of understanding the theology and science relationship. Herein, I advocate a monistic process-based view of the overlapping relationship between theology and science. ""Bradford McCall offers a creative and original synthesis in this work. Working with love, emergence, kenosis, and a variety of key theological concepts, McCall offers an original and constructive proposal to make sense of science and theology in our day."" --Thomas Jay Oord, author of The Uncontrolling Love of God ""Universal in scope, yet also a chronicle of critical personal development, the essays in this collection span a decade of fruitful research at the borderlines of theology and science. McCall courageously takes on the conflicting concerns of evolution, emergence, teleology, kenosis, divine action, and pneumatology. The result offers a monistic, process-based and correlational view of the world that speaks loudly to the reconciliation of theology and science."" --Wolfgang Vondey, Director, Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, University of Birmingham Bradford McCall is a PhD student at Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California. He is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles.

How should we attempt to understand the relationship between theology and science in the twenty-first century? In this book, I will attempt to answer this question by examining several previous attempts to classify this relationship. I also develop my personal view of the relation, thereafter discussing some Catholic contributions to this project, and then revisit some of my previously published material, highlighting the role of panentheism therein, and noting an emergent implication from the literature: the resultant possibilities for God--an implication that creates space for a broadly relational perspective of the process of emergence. These movements allow me to argue that kenosis and emergence can add to the discussion of understanding the theology and science relationship. Herein, I advocate a monistic process-based view of the overlapping relationship between theology and science. ""Bradford McCall offers a creative and original synthesis in this work. Working with love, emergence, kenosis, and a variety of key theological concepts, McCall offers an original and constructive proposal to make sense of science and theology in our day."" --Thomas Jay Oord, author of The Uncontrolling Love of God ""Universal in scope, yet also a chronicle of critical personal development, the essays in this collection span a decade of fruitful research at the borderlines of theology and science. McCall courageously takes on the conflicting concerns of evolution, emergence, teleology, kenosis, divine action, and pneumatology. The result offers a monistic, process-based and correlational view of the world that speaks loudly to the reconciliation of theology and science."" --Wolfgang Vondey, Director, Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, University of Birmingham Bradford McCall is a PhD student at Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California. He is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles.