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McDowell, John C. (2015) Editorial. Colloquium, 47 (2). pp. 174-179. ISSN 0588-3237

McDowell, John C. (2015) God at the End of Higher Education: Raising the Telos of the University Higher. Colloquium, 47 (2). pp. 221-236. ISSN 0588-3237

McDowell, John C. (2013) ‘Hospitality’ at the End of Religion. The Bonhoeffer LEgacy: Australasian Journal of Bonhoeffer Studies, 1. pp. 79-103. ISSN 2202-9168

McDowell, John C. (2013) Polis, poiesis and power. St Mark's Review, 225. pp. 27-37. ISSN 0036-3103

McDowell, John C. (2012) Schooled in a Lifelong Education in Prayer. St Mark's Review, 222. pp. 143-153. ISSN 0036-3103

McDowell, John C. (2012) The unnaturalness of natural theology: the witness of Rodney Holder's Karl Barth. Colloquium, 44 (2). pp. 243-255. ISSN 0588-3237

McDowell, John C. (2011) Crossing Silence: The Silences of the Word. St Mark's Review, 215. pp. 22-38. ISSN 0036-3103

McDowell, John C. (2011) Feastings in God at Midnight: Theology and the Globalised Present. Pacifica, 23 (3). pp. 299-321. ISSN 1030-570X

McDowell, John C. (2009) What Athens has to do with Jerusalem: the Wisdom of Reason, the Publics of Theology. Pacifica, 22 (2). pp. 125-147. ISSN 1030-570X

Book Chapters

McDowell, John C. (2016) Donald MacKinnon and the Kenotic Word to Ecclesial Power. In: Donald MacKinnon, Kenotic Ecclesiology:  Select Writings of Donald M. MacKinnon. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9781451496284

McDowell, John C. (2016) Foreword. In: The Good Work of Non-Christians, Empowerment, and the New Creation. Or: Pickwick, Eugene, ix-xiii. ISBN 9781620328101

McDowell, John C. (2016) The Gratuity of Being-in-Act From, In, Through and After the Word: Reflections on Post-Maury Barth. In: Election, Barth, and the French Connection: How Pierre Maury Gave a ‘Decisive Impetus’ to Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Election. Pickwick, Eugene, pp. 155-173. ISBN 9781498204675

Moyse, Ashley John; Kirkland, Scott A. and McDowell, John C. (2016) Introduction. In: Correlating Sobornost: Conversations Between Karl Barth and the Orthodox Tradition. Fortress, Minneapolis, xxiii-xl. ISBN 9781506410753

McDowell, John C. (2016) One Person, Many Persons: Adding Up the Personality Disorder in CD §§8-9. In: Correlating Sobernost: Conversations Between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox Tradition. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, pp. 135-162. ISBN 9781506410753

McDowell, John C. (2014) Attentive Judgment: Theology and the Future of Education. In: Theology and the Future: Evangelical Assertions and Explorations. Bloomsbury, London, NY, Sydney, New Dehi, pp. 115-135. ISBN 9780567191939

McDowell, John C. (2014) On not being spirited away: pneumatology and critical presence. In: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Filioque for the 21st Century. Bloomsbury, London, NY, Sydney, New Delhi, pp. 167-184. ISBN 9780567500724

McDowell, John C. (2013) The Ascent of Theological Reading: Iconoclasm and the Divine Event of Making Readers. In: Ears that Hear: Explorations in Theological Interpretation of Scripture. Sheffield Phoenix Press, Sheffield, pp. 94-113. ISBN 9781907534775

McDowell, John C. (2013) National Treasures: Joss Whedon’s Assembling of Exceptional Avengers. In: Joss Whedon and religion: essays on an angry atheist's explorations of the sacred. McFarland Press, Jefferson, pp. 183-195. ISBN 9780786472901

McDowell, John C. (2012) From Sky-Walking to the Dark Knight of the Soul: George Lucas’ Star Wars Turns to Tragic Drama. In: Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, pp. 65-82. ISBN 9780810885127

McDowell, John C. (2012) Idolaters at Providential Prayer: Calvin’s Praying Through Divine Governance. In: Evangelical Calvinism. Princeton Theological Monograph Series, eds. Habets, Myk and Grow, Robert. Pickwick, Eugene, pp. 353-403. ISBN 9781608998579

McDowell, John C. (2012) 'Silenus’ Wisdom and the “Crime of Being”: The Problem of Hope in George Steiner’s Tragic Vision. In: The wounds of possibility : essays on George Steiner. The Northwestern Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 248-264. ISBN 9781443841061

McDowell, John C. (2012) Unlearn What You Have Learned [Yoda]: The Critical Study of the Myth of Star Wars. In: Understanding Religion and Popular Culture. Routledge, London, pp. 104-117. ISBN 9780415781046

McDowell, John C. (2011) Donald MacKinnon: Extraordinary Theologian of the Ordinary. In: Philosophy and the Burden of Theological Honesty: A Donald MacKinnon Reader. T&T Clark, London, xii-xiv. ISBN 9780567136268

McDowell, John C. (2011) Prayer, Particularity and the Subject of Divine Personhood: Who are Brümmer and Barth Invoking When They Pray? In: Trinitarian Theology After Barth. Princeton Theological Monograph Series, eds. Habets, Myk and Tolliday, Phillip. Pickwick, Eugene, pp. 255-283. ISBN 9780227680322

Conference Papers

McDowell, John C. (2010) Theology and the Globalised Present: Feastings in God at Midnight. In: The Melbourne College of Divinity Centenary Conference, 5-7 July 2010, Trinity College, Melbourme, Australia.

Books / Monographs

Kirkland, Scott A. and McDowell, John C. (2018) Eschatology. Eerdmans, Eugene: OR. 176pp. ISBN 978-0-8028-6458-1

Moyse, Ashley John; Kirkland, Scott A. and McDowell, John C. (2016) Correlating Sobornost: Conversations Between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox Tradition (Edited Book). Fortress, Minneapolis. 371pp. ISBN 9781506410753

McDowell, John C. (2016) Identity Politics in George Lucas' Star Wars. McFarland Press, Jefferson, NC. 208pp. ISBN 9781476662862

McDowell, John C.; Kirkland, Scott A. and Moyse, Ashley John (2016) Kenotic ecclesiology: Select writings of Donald M. MacKinnon (Edited Book). Fortress Press, Minneapolis. 245pp. ISBN 9781451496284

McDowell, John C. (2014) The Politics of Big Fantasy: The Ideologies of Star Wars, the Matrix and the Avengers. McFarland Press, Jefferson, NC. 232pp. ISBN 9780786474882