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About Zachary McCulley

Zach McCulley (@zamccull) is a historian of religion and literary cultures in early modern England and PhD candidate in History at Queen's University Belfast

Zach McCulley (@zamccull) is a historian of religion and literary cultures in early modern England and PhD candidate in History at Queen's University Belfast.

NBN Episodes hosted by Zachary:

Christian Studies April 26, 2023

Biblical Theology

A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach

Andreas J. Köstenberger and Greg Goswell

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Pastors, thoughtful Christians, and students of Scripture must learn how to carefully read and understand the Bible, but it can be difficult to know where to start. In this clear …
General History June 28, 2022

Benjamin Franklin

Cultural Protestant

D. G. Hart

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin …
Christian Studies February 9, 2022

More Than a Story

Exploring the Message of the Bible with Children (New Testament)

Sally Michael

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In More Than a Story: Exploring the Message of the Bible with Children (New Testament)" (Truth78, 2021), Sally Michael offers a new kind of Bible resource for children—taking them on a chronological …
Christian Studies January 3, 2022

The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators

Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World

Thomas Schmidt

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators (Cambridge UP, 2021), T. C. Schmidt offers a new perspective on the formation of the New Testament by examining it simply as …
General History December 22, 2021

Zwingli

God's Armed Prophet

Bruce Gordon

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet (Yale, 2021) is a major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli--the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation. Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the …
Christian Studies December 17, 2021

Reformed Systematic Theology

Volume 3: Spirit and Salvation

Joel Beeke and Paul M. Smalley

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The aim of systematic theology is to engage not only the head but also the heart and hands. Only recently has the church compartmentalized these aspects of life--separating the academic …
Christian Studies November 3, 2021

Ten Words to Live By

Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

Jen Wilkin

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Christianity isn’t about following rules, it’s about a relationship. The rise in popularity of this phrase coincides with a growing disinterest and misunderstanding regarding the role of God’s life-giving, perfect …
Christian Studies October 13, 2021

Covenant Theology

Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives

Guy Prentiss Waters

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Crossway Books, 2020) explores the biblical covenants and how they form the structure of the Bible and inform the Christian life. Featuring contributions …
Christian Studies August 25, 2021

Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America's Most Infamous Pilot

A Religious Biography of America's Most Infamous Pilot

Christopher Gehrz

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The narrative surrounding Charles Lindbergh's life has been as varying and complex as the man himself. Once best known as an aviator--the first to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight--he …
Christian Studies August 23, 2021

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I

The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689

John Coffey

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689 (Oxford UP, 2020) traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity …
Christian Studies July 19, 2021

The Flesh of the Word

The Extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy

K. J. Drake

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The extra Calvinisticum, that the eternal Son maintains his existence beyond the flesh during his earthly ministry and perpetually, divided the Lutheran and Reformed traditions during the Reformation. K. J …
Christian Studies July 8, 2021

The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea

Young Richard Kim

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Every Sunday, Christians all over the world recite the Nicene Creed as a confession of faith. While most do not know the details of the controversy that led to its …
Christian Studies July 7, 2021

Font of Pardon and New Life

John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism

Lyle D Bierma

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Lyle D. Bierma's Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism (Oxford UP, 2021) is a study of the historical development and impact of John …
Christian Studies June 23, 2021

John Calvin in Context

R. Ward Holder

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
John Calvin in Context (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers a comprehensive overview of Calvin's world. Including essays from social, cultural, feminist, and intellectual historians, each specially commissioned for this volume, the book …
General History June 23, 2021

Justifying Revolution

The Early American Clergy and Political Resistance

Gary Lee Steward

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Gary Lee Steward's Justifying Revolution: The Early American Clergy and Political Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2021) explores the patriot clergymen's arguments for the legitimacy of political resistance to the British in …
Christian Studies June 4, 2021

Luther, Conflict, and Christendom

Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West

Christopher Ocker

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Martin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther stress his personality, his ideas, and his ambitions …
Christian Studies May 26, 2021

Karl Barth

A Life in Conflict

Christiane Tietz

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and …
General History May 25, 2021

Lincoln in Private

What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President

Ronald C. White

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, a revelatory glimpse into the mind and soul of our sixteenth president through his private notes to …
Christian Studies May 13, 2021

Liberty for All

Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age

Andrew T. Walker

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble …
General History May 5, 2021

Calvin, the Bible, and History

Barbara Pitkin

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
John Calvin was known foremost for his powerful impact on the fundamental doctrines of Protestantism, and his biblical interpretation continues to attract interest and inquiry. Calvin, the Bible, and History …
General History April 27, 2021

The Enlightenment

The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

Ritchie Robertson

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (Harper, 2021) is a magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit …
Christian Studies April 21, 2021

Surviving Religion 101

Letters to a Christian Student on Keeping the Faith in College

Michael J. Kruger

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
For many young adults, the college years are an exciting period of self-discovery full of new relationships, new independence, and new experiences. Yet college can also be a time of …
General History April 16, 2021

The Golden Age of the American Essay

1945-1970

Phillip Lopate

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in …
Christian Studies March 31, 2021

Lead Like It Matters to God

Values-Driven Leadership in a Success-Driven World

Richard Stearns

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Sharing the principles he has learned over a remarkable corporate and ministry career, Richard Stearns offers seventeen crucial values that equip godly leaders to be effective at any level. When …