Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity

“In this creative and erudite work, Bradford McCall tackles big questions about God’s actions. And in conversation with key voices and ideas, he proposes an appealing vision. I’m especially attracted to the ways McCall privileges divine love and understands divine activity in light of it. This is an important book!”


—Thomas Jay Oord, professor of open and relationship theology, Northwind Theological Seminary





“Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity, by Bradford McCall, is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time. Dealing with important issues about God’s involvement in the world, McCall shows an impressive ability to draw on biology, philosophy, history, and theology as partners in the quest for understanding. This is an important book for both seasoned scholars and beginning students. Highly recommended.”


—Michael Ruse, retired professor of philosophy, Florida State University





“Few contest the notion that God is God precisely in being able to redeem the pain and suffering of human history and its innumerable underdetermined actions. This work provides a preliminary account of how an undergraduate degree in biology is being redeemed, through the tragic and fluke circumstances involving traumatic brain injury, for contemporary theology in a scientifically understood world. More precisely, Bradford McCall also invites consideration of how divine redemption of the contingencies over the long arc of evolutionary history is occurring, especially as the latter is narrated in the geological, paleontological, and biological sciences.”


—Amos Yong, professor of theology and mission, Fuller Seminary