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About Crawford Gribben
Crawford Gribben
is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.
NBN Episodes hosted by Crawford:
History
February 12, 2021
A History of the 20th Century
Conflict, Technology & Rock'n'roll
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black – professor of history at Exeter University, and one of the world’s most prolific writers – has just published an outstanding illustrated history of the twentieth century, in A …
Christian Studies
February 10, 2021
Adam Boreel (1602-1665)
A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity" (Brill, 2020)
Francesco Quatrini
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
The debate about the origins of Enlightenment haven’t paid as much attention as they should have done to the radical religious cultures of the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century …
Christian Studies
February 4, 2021
Christian Socialism as Political Ideology
The Formation of the British Christian Left, 1877-1945
Anthony A.J. Williams
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Anthony A.J. Williams is a political scientist who has taught at the University of Liverpool and at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Anthony is the author of an outstanding new account …
Christian Studies
February 2, 2021
Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations
David Dickson
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Matthew A. Vogan, who has published several books on the religious history and literature of seventeenth-century Scotland, and several editions of works by Covenanter preachers and theologians, talks today about …
Christian Studies
February 1, 2021
One Small Candle
The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England
Francis J. Bremer
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Frank Bremer's outstanding new book, One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England (Oxford UP, 2020), describes the fortunes of the congregation of pilgrims that settled …
Literature
December 11, 2020
Alexandria
Paul Kingsnorth
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Over the last ten years, Paul Kingsnorth has become recognised as one of the most extraordinary of contemporary writers. After The Wake, which was listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 …
Christian Studies
December 8, 2020
Reformed Evangelicalism and the Search for a Usable Past
The Historiography of Arnold Dallimore, Pastor-Historian
Ian Hugh Clary
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Ian H. Clary, who teaches historical theology at Colorado Christian University, has written Reformed Evangelicalism and the Search for a Usable Past: The Historiography of Arnold Dallimore, Pastor-Historian (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht …
History
December 8, 2020
John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions
Lloyd Bowen
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Lloyd Bowen, who teaches history at Cardiff University, is a leading authority on Wales in the seventeenth century. His latest book, John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British …
History
November 23, 2020
George III
Madness and Majesty
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for …
Christian Studies
November 13, 2020
The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
A Forgotten Scholar
Timothy C. F. Stunt
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
For the sixty years in which he has made a distinguished contribution to the religious history of the nineteenth century, Timothy Stunt has been working on the life and times …
Christian Studies
November 11, 2020
Grace and Freedom
William Perkins and the Early Modern Reformed Understanding of Free Choice and Divine Grace
Richard Muller
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
No-one has done more than Richard A. Muller to shape our approach to early modern historical theology. His earlier work, and most especially the four volumes of his Post-Reformation Reformed …
Literary Studies
November 2, 2020
Doubtful Readers
Print, Poetry and the Reading Public in Early Modern England
Erin A. McCarthy
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Erin McCarthy, who teaches digital humanities at Newcastle University, Australia, has just published a fabulous new book about the ways in which the printing of poetry impacted upon the reading …
American Studies
October 30, 2020
American Secession
The Looming Threat of a National Break-Up
F. H. Buckley
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Francis Buckley, who is Foundation Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, has written a fast-moving and provocative new book about the opportunities and possibilities of a …
European Studies
October 19, 2020
The Invention of Papal History
Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform
Stefan Bauer
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe. Bauer, who has just taken up a new position teaching history …
British Studies
October 6, 2020
Catholicity and the Covenant of Works
James Ussher and the Reformed Tradition
Harrison Perkins
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism. Harrison Perkins, who teaches systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary and …
American Studies
October 2, 2020
The American Puritans
Dustin Benge and Nate Pickowicz
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
On the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival in the new world of the Mayflower, Dustin Benge and Nate Pickowicz have written a lively and accessible account of America’s earliest …
European Studies
October 2, 2020
Orthodox Yet Modern
Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher
Cory C. Brock
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Cory C. Brock has published an exciting new book on one of the most important Dutch Reformed theologians from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Herman Bavinck negotiated his …
European Studies
September 30, 2020
Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706)
Text, Context, and Interpretation
Adriaan C. Neele
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Adriaan Neele, who is director of the doctoral programme and Professor of Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, has edited an outstanding collection of essays on Petrus van Mastricht …
Eastern European Studies
September 21, 2020
The Jews and the Reformation
Kenneth Austin
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Kenneth Austin, who teaches history at the University of Bristol, UK, is well-known for his work on Jews and Judaism in early modern Europe. His new book, The Jews and …
Literary Studies
September 11, 2020
The Lexham English Septuagint
Ken M. Penner
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
On this episode of New Books in Christian Studies, we welcome Ken M. Penner, Professor of Religious Studies at St Francis Xavier University. After a career that has combined biblical …
British Studies
September 2, 2020
The Welsh Methodist Society
The Early Societies in South-West Wales 1737-1750
Eryn M. White
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Eryn White, who is Reader in Welsh history at Aberystwyth University, Wales, has written an outstanding new book on the beginnings of Welsh evangelicalism. The Welsh Methodist Society: The Early …
African Studies
August 31, 2020
A Brief History of the Mediterranean
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black, the prolific professor of history at Exeter University, has published A Brief History of the Mediterranean (Little Brown, 2020), to offer readers an overview of this sphere from …
British Studies
August 27, 2020
The gloss and the text
William Perkins on interpreting Scripture with Scripture
Andrew S. Ballitch
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Throughout the seventeenth century, and on both sides of the Atlantic, William Perkins exercised enormous influence on the ways in which protestants approached the reading of the Bible and thought …
American Studies
August 14, 2020
The End of Empathy
Why White Protestants Stopped Loving their Neighbors
John W. Compton
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
We’re all familiar with the statistic that 81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. But what if a deeper trawl through the complex relationship …
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