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About Crawford Gribben
Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.
NBN Episodes hosted by Crawford:
June 23, 2024
The Fall
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…
June 16, 2024
Red Secularism
Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 (Cambridge UP, 2023) is the first substantive investigation into one of the k…
May 21, 2024
Milton's Theological Process
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…
May 9, 2024
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach
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…
April 21, 2024
William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism
Exploring both his life and legacy, the first full biography of William Sharman Crawford, the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster…
April 17, 2024
Two Lives of Saint Brigid
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…
February 18, 2024
The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch
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…
January 5, 2024
American Vikings
A vivid and illuminating new history--separate fact from fiction, myth from legend--exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America. Vikings…
December 31, 2023
God Against the Revolution
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution. Among those who retained some degree of loyalty to the British…
December 26, 2023
Homeschool
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…
October 22, 2023
A Storm of Images
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…
October 3, 2023
A Constitutional Culture
In A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Adrian Chasta…
September 8, 2023
Reason in the Service of Faith
Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects …
August 19, 2023
House and Home in Georgian Ireland
Conor Lucey's book House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life (Four Courts Press, 2022) explores the everyday character …
July 1, 2023
Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England
Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley (Oxford UP, 2022) is the first modern full-scale examinati…
June 27, 2023
Jesus in Context
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 …
May 24, 2023
Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60
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…
April 25, 2023
Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy
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…
April 16, 2023
The Americanization of the Apocalypse
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…
April 1, 2023
He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence
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 pl…
March 27, 2023
The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction
The seventeenth century Reformed Orthodox discussions of the work of Christ and its various doctrinal constitutive elements were rich and multifaceted…
January 5, 2023
Does God Intend that Sin Occur?
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 Christ…
December 24, 2022
Reading John Milton
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. Dobr…
October 13, 2022
John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel
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 G…