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This List is accurate at 25th February 2009

published books

·        Hope in Barth’s Eschatology:  Interrogations and Transformations Beyond Tragedy (Aldershot/Burlington/Singapore/Sydney:  Ashgate, 2000). 

·        (co-ed.) Conversing With Barth, edited by Mike A. Higton and John C. McDowell (Aldershot/Burlington/Singapore/Sydney:  Ashgate, forthcoming 2004). 

·        The Gospel According to Star Wars:  Faith, Hope and the Force (Louisville, Kentucky:  Westminster John Knox Press, 2007). 

forthcoming books

·        (ed.) Donald MacKinnon (Continuum T&T Clark, forthcoming, 2010). 

·        (co-ed.), Revised New Dictionary of Theology (Leicester:  IVP, forthcoming, 2010). 

·        Eschatology, Guides to Theology (Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, forthcoming, 2011). 

published articles

·        ‘For What May We Legitimately Hope?  Karl Barth’s “Theology of Hope”’, Whitefield Briefings 5.5 (July, 2000). 

·        ‘Learning Where to Place One’s Hope:  The Eschatological Significance of Election in Barth’, Scottish Journal of Theology 53.3 (2000), 316-338. 

·        ‘Silenus’ Wisdom and the “Crime of Being”:  The Problem of Hope in George Steiner’s Tragic Vision’, Literature and Theology 14 (2000), 385-411. 

·        ‘A Response to Rodney Holder on Barth on Natural Theology’, Themelios, 27.2 (2002), 32-44. 

·        ‘Enfleshing a Phantom Figure:  Timothy Gorringe’s Contextualised Barth’, Quodlibet Journal 4.2-3 (Summer 2002), www.quodlibet.net. 

·        ‘Much Ado About Nothing:  Karl Barth’s Being Unable to Do Nothing About Nothingness’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 4.3 (2002), 319-335. 

·        ‘Timothy Gorringe’s Contextualised Barth’, Evangelical Quarterly 74 (2002), 333-350. 

·        ‘Theology as Conversational Event:  Karl Barth, the Ending of “Dialogue” and the Beginning of “Conversation”’, Modern Theology 19.4 (2003), 483-509. 

·        ‘A Very Unnationalistic Patriotism, Or What the Flag Should Not Blind Us To’, The Witness (March 2004), http://www.thewitness.org/agw/mcdowell031904.html. 

·        ‘Trapped in the Flag?’, Third Way 27.5 (June 2004), 22-25. 

·        With Mike Higton, ‘Introduction:  Barth, Conversationalist and Conversation Partner’, in Mike Higton and John C. McDowell (eds.), Conversing With Barth (Aldershot, et al:  Ashgate, 2004), 1-13. 

·        ‘“Mend Your Speech a Little”:  Reading Karl Barth’s Das Nichtige Through Donald MacKinnon’s Tragic Vision’, in Mike Higton and John C. McDowell (eds.), Conversing With Barth (Aldershot, et al:  Ashgate, 2004), 142-172. 

·        ‘Karl Barth’s Having No-Thing to Hope For’, Journal of Christian Theological Research 10 (2006), 1-49. 

·        ‘Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, and the Subjectivity of the Object of Christian Hope’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 8.1 (Jan 2006), 25-41. 

·        ‘The Politics of a Mel-Placed Passion and Displaced Bodies’, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 15 (2007), http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art15-melplaced.html. 

·        ‘The Force is Strong with Star Wars’, Third Way 30.5 (2007), 22-25. 

·        ‘Resistance is Futile?  Barmen 75 Years On’, forthcoming Newcastle Herald, http://www.freewebs.com/johnmcdowell/Publications/Short%20Papers/Barmen_Declaration.pdf. 

·        ‘“Openness to the World”:  Karl Barth’s Evangelical Theology of Christ as the Pray-er’, Modern Theology 25.2 (2009). 

·        ‘What Athens has to do with Jerusalem:  The Wisdom of Reason, the Publics of Theology’, forthcoming Pacifica. 

dictionary articles

·        ‘Karl Barth’, in New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (Leicester:  IVP, 2006). 

·        ‘Rudolf Bultmann’, in New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (Leicester:  IVP, 2006). 

orther published pieces

·        ‘To Choose Or Not to Choose, That is Not the Question’, Viewfield News (June, 2003). 

·        ‘A Very Unpatriotic Patriotism’, Viewfield News (September, 2003). 

·        ‘Feasting on God’s Unconsumable Gift this Christmas’, Viewfield News (December, 2003). 

·        ‘The Only Way to God?’, Letter to Life and Work (January, 2004), 38. 

·        ‘Regarding Lenten Love’, Viewfield News (April, 2004). 

·        ‘Criticism Response’, Letter to Life and Work (May, 2004), 41. 

·        ‘A Full-Blooded Gospel’, Viewfield News (June, 2004). 

·        ‘Behaving Like Children’, Viewfield News (November, 2004). 

·        ‘Having a Non-Trivial Christmas!’, Viewfield News (December, 2004)

·        ‘Easter Vigil’, Viewfield News (April, 2005). 

·        ‘Wilderness Wanderings Back into the Slave-Warren’, Viewfield News (November, 2005). 

·        ‘The Significance of Creation’, The Student (March, 2006). 

·        ‘Pop-Culture, and Learning how to Live Through the Star Wars Mythology’, St. Filans Crozier (Nov. 2008). 

book reviews

From 2000, the book reviews are too numerous to list, having been published in

  • Modern Theology
  • Scottish Journal of Theology
  • International Journal of Systematic Theology
  • Heythrop Journal
  • Reviews in Religion and Theology
  • Theology
  • Expository Times
  • Evangelical Quarterly
  • Themelios