About Crawford Gribben

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

NBN Episodes hosted by Crawford:

Harrison Perkins, "Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction" (Lexham Academic, 2024)

October 1, 2024

Reformed Covenant Theology

Harrison Perkins
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Covenant shapes our life with God. In Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction (Lexham Academic, 2024), Harrison Perkins shows how Christ…

Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)

September 11, 2024

Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250

Edel Bhreathnach
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The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of I…

Mark Sweetnam, "Paul's Last Letter: A Commentary on the Second Epistle to Timothy" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)

August 14, 2024

Paul's Last Letter

Mark Sweetnam
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The Second Epistle to Timothy is, by any standard, a remarkable document. Even as the apostle urges his friend and coworker hasten to Rome for a final…

Zoe Knox, "Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

August 13, 2024

Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World

Zoe Knox
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Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from the prophetic ferment within later nineteenth-centur…

Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)

July 30, 2024

When Christians Disagree

Tim Cooper
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Our current culture seems to be increasingly divided on countless issues, including those affecting the church. But for centuries, theological disagre…

Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)

June 23, 2024

The Fall

Henry Reece
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Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in Eng…

Todd H. Weir, "Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

June 16, 2024

Red Secularism

Todd H. Weir
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Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 (Cambridge UP, 2023) is the first substantive investigation into one of the k…

Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)

May 21, 2024

Milton's Theological Process

Jason A. Kerr
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This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repos…

Mark Dooley, "Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

May 9, 2024

Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach

Mark Dooley
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Roger Scruton was one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then was he at best ignored and at worst reviled? In Roger Sc…

Peter Gray, "William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism" (U College Dublin Press, 2023)

April 21, 2024

William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism

Peter Gray
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Exploring both his life and legacy, the first full biography of William Sharman Crawford, the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster…

Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)

April 17, 2024

Two Lives of Saint Brigid

Philip Freeman
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St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men an…

Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch" (Cascade Books, 2023)

February 18, 2024

The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch

Jonathon Lookadoo
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The letters of Ignatius of Antioch portray Jesus in terms that are both remarkably exalted and shockingly vulnerable. Jesus is identified as God and i…

Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

January 5, 2024

American Vikings

Martyn Whittock
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A vivid and illuminating new history--separate fact from fiction, myth from legend--exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America. Vikings…

Gregg L. Frazer, "God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)

December 31, 2023

God Against the Revolution

Gregg L. Frazer
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Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution. Among those who retained some degree of loyalty to the British…

Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American History" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

December 26, 2023

Homeschool

Milton Gaither
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With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is time…

Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)

October 22, 2023

A Storm of Images

Philip Jenkins
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In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images that depicted Christ, the Virgin, or other holy figur…

Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

October 3, 2023

A Constitutional Culture

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 Chasta…

Oliver Crisp and Daniel J. Hill, eds., "Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm" (Routledge, 2023)

September 8, 2023

Reason in the Service of Faith

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 …

Conor Lucey, "House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life" (Four Courts Press, 2022)

August 19, 2023

House and Home in Georgian Ireland

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 …

Greg A. Salazar, "Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley" (Oxford UP, 2022)

July 1, 2023

Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England

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 examinati…

David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

June 27, 2023

Jesus in Context

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 …

Alan Marshall, "Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60" (Manchester UP, 2023)

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…

Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

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 int…

Donald Harman Akenson, "The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible" (Oxford UP. 2023)

April 16, 2023

The Americanization of the Apocalypse

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 Dispe…