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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …