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About Justin McGeary

Justin McGeary is Director of Christian Studies at John Witherspoon College and a graduate student at Union School of Theology, Wales.

Justin McGeary is Director of Christian Studies at John Witherspoon College and a graduate student at Union School of Theology, Wales.

NBN Episodes hosted by Justin:

Education April 23, 2023

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Lessons from a Renaissance Education

Scott Newstok

Hosted by Justin McGeary
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Princeton UP, 2020) offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy …
Christian Studies December 24, 2022

The Need for Creeds Today

Confessional Faith in a Faithless Age

J. V. Fesko

Hosted by Justin McGeary
The Need for Creeds Today: Confessional Faith in a Faithless Age (Baker Academic, 2020) is an accessible invitation to the historic creeds and confessions makes a biblical and historical case for …
Christian Studies December 17, 2022

The Spirit of the Age

The 19th Century Debate Over the Holy Spirit and the Westminster Confession

J. V. Fesko

Hosted by Justin McGeary
In 1903, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America revised the Westminster Confession of Faith because they thought it was deficient regarding the Holy Spirit. In The Spirit of …
Christian Studies July 5, 2022

Transatlantic Religion

Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity

Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis

Hosted by Justin McGeary
Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis' edited volume Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity (Brill, 2021) offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century American Christianity that takes into …
Christian Studies May 22, 2022

On Theology

Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations

Bruce Pass, ed. and trans.

Hosted by Justin McGeary
On Theology: Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations (Brill, 2020) presents four previously untranslated works by Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), here introduced and translated by Bruce Pass. These four speeches offer important insights into …
Christian Studies May 17, 2022

The Heart of Dogmatics

Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck

Bruce R. Pass

Hosted by Justin McGeary
The christocentric character of Herman Bavinck's thought has long been acknowledged, but an analysis of Bavinck's christocentrism has not been forthcoming. The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman …
Christian Studies February 24, 2022

God in Gotham

Jon Butler

Hosted by Justin McGeary
In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and …
Christian Studies February 21, 2022

To Think Christianly

A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

Charles E. Cotherman

Hosted by Justin McGeary
In the late 1960s and on into the next decade, the American pastor and bestselling author Francis Schaeffer regularly received requests from evangelicals across North America seeking his help to …