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About Crawford Gribben

Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.

NBN Episodes hosted by Crawford:

Christian Studies September 8, 2023

Reason in the Service of Faith

Collected Essays of Paul Helm

Oliver Crisp and Daniel J. Hill, eds.

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Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed …
Irish Studies August 19, 2023

House and Home in Georgian Ireland

Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life

Conor Lucey

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Conor Lucey's book House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life (Four Courts Press, 2022) explores the everyday character and functions of domestic spaces in Georgian Ireland …
Christian Studies July 1, 2023

Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England

The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley

Greg A. Salazar

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Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley (Oxford UP, 2022) is the first modern full-scale examination of the theology and life of the distinguished English …
Christian Studies June 27, 2023

Jesus in Context

Making Sense of the Historical Figure

David Wenham

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Jesus changed our world forever. But who was he and what do we know about him? David Wenham's Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure (Cambridge UP, 2021) …
Early Modern History May 24, 2023

Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60

Alan Marshall

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Alan Marshall's book Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60 (Manchester UP, 2023) is a richly detailed account of the ideas and activities in the early-modern 'secret state' and its …
Art April 25, 2023

Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy

Ferenc Hörcher

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Ferenc Hörcher's book Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) covers the field of and points to the intersections between politics, art and philosophy. Its hero, the …
Christian Studies April 16, 2023

The Americanization of the Apocalypse

Creating America's Own Bible

Donald Harman Akenson

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In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking …
Christian Studies April 1, 2023

He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence

The Many Lives of Psalm 91

Philip Jenkins

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Jews and Christians alike have made Psalm 91 one of the most commonly used and cited parts of the Bible. For over two thousand years, the psalm has played a …
Christian Studies March 27, 2023

The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction

A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)

Joshua D. Schendel

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The seventeenth century Reformed Orthodox discussions of the work of Christ and its various doctrinal constitutive elements were rich and multifaceted, ranging across biblical and exegetical, historical, philosophical, and theological …
Christian Studies January 5, 2023

Does God Intend that Sin Occur?

Matthew J. Hart and Daniel J. Hill

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Matthew J Hart and Daniel J Hill's book Does God Intend that Sin Occur? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) argues, from a detailed consideration of the Christian Scriptures, that God intends that sin …
Christian Studies December 24, 2022

Reading John Milton

How to Persist in Troubled Times

Stephen Dobranski

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John Milton is unrivalled--for the music of his verse and the breadth of his learning. In this brisk, topical, and engaging biography, Stephen B. Dobranski brushes the scholarly dust from …
Christian Studies October 13, 2022

John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel

A Prologue to Theology

John Behr

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John Behr's book John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology (Oxford UP, 2021) brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the …
American Studies October 3, 2022

A Constitutional Culture

New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire

Adrian Chastain Weimer

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In A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than …
Christian Studies September 26, 2022

The Epistle of Barnabas

A Commentary

Jonathon Lookadoo

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Although the Epistle of Barnabas may be best known for its Two Ways Tradition or its anti-Jewish use of Scripture, its contents reveal much that will be of interest to …
Christian Studies August 29, 2022

John Cennick (1718-1755)

Methodism, Moravianism and the Rise of Evangelicalism

Robert Edmund Cotter

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Robert Edmund Cotter's book John Cennick (1718-1755): Methodism, Moravianism and the Rise of Evangelicalism (Routledge, 2022) explores the life and spirituality of John Cennick (1718-1755) and argues for a new appreciation of …
General History December 1, 2021

The Last King of America

The Misunderstood Reign of George III

Andrew Roberts

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Following upon the success of his magisterial account of Winston Churchill, Andrew Roberts returns with an outstanding biography of George III: The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III …
General History November 22, 2021

England in the Age of Dickens, 1812-70

Jeremy Black

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Jeremy Black, who recently retired as professor of history of Exeter University, has just published the two latest installments of his series of works on writers of literary fiction. England in the …
Christian Studies October 5, 2021

Cambridge Greek Lexicon

James Diggle

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Professor James Diggle, editor in chief of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon (Cambridge UP, 2021), joins us to explain the background to this extraordinary project. Setting out to provide a standard …
Christian Studies September 21, 2021

The Didache

Shawn J. Wilhite

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Shawn Wilhite is author of this outstanding new commentary on one of the most important early Christian documents. We don't know who wrote the Didache, when it was written, or …
Christian Studies September 20, 2021

The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan, and Russell Newton

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The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland (Boydell Press, 2021), edited by  Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan and Russell Newton, is an outstanding and agenda-setting volume that puts the experience …
Christian Studies August 17, 2021

Second Clement

An Introductory Commentary

William Varner

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As everyone likes to notice, The Second Epistle of Clement is neither an epistle nor by Clement. So why does this early second-century Christian document matter so much? Second Clement: An …
Christian Studies July 6, 2021

The Nero-Antichrist

Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm

Shushma Malik

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In The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge UP, 2020), Shushma Malik reconstructs the means by which the emperor Nero came to be identified with the New Testament's antichrist. Malik surveys …
Christian Studies June 22, 2021

Duplex Regnum Christi

Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology

Jonathon D. Beeke

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In Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology (Brill, 2020), Jonathon D. Beeke surveys the development of thinking among early modern Reformed theologians about the relationship between religion and …
Christian Studies June 10, 2021

Defending the Faith

Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Hugh McLeod and Todd Weir

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Todd H. Weir and Hugh McLeod, two leading historians of religion, have teamed up to edit a volume in the Proceedings of the British Academy that explores how conflicts between secular worldviews …