Publications & Media

Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2024), ‘Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age’, Zondervan, 9780310160908.
Awarded The Gospel Coalition 2025 Book of the Year - Culture category.
Awarded Outreach Magazine 2025 Resource of the Year - Culture category




Irving, S. (2008), 'Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire', Pickering and Chatto, 9781851968893, Republished in 2016 by Routledge.
Awarded The Royal Society of Literature and Jerwood Foundation Award for Non-Fiction
- Irving-Stonebraker, Sarah. (2026) “Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2026). https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.70054
- Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2022), ‘Evangelicals and the Religious Liberty of Indigenous Australians in the Period of Nation-Building: The Arrernte People’s Sacred Tywerrenge”, Lucas: Journal of Evangelical History, December 2022.
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Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2022), '"Sworn to no master" : the intellectual traditions of liberty of conscience in colonial New South Wales to 1856', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 68, no 1 , pp 4 - 17.
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Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2021), 'The forgotten history of religious liberty : Richard Johnson Lecture, 2020', Journal of Religious History, vol 45, no 4 , pp 644 - 658.
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Irving-Stonebraker, S. (2021), 'Catholic emancipation and the idea of religious liberty in 1830s New South Wales', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 67, no 2 , pp 193 - 207.
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Irving, S. (2020), 'Comparative history and ethnography in William Ellis's Polynesian Researches', Journal of Pacific History, vol 55, no 1 , pp 1 - 17.
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Irving, S. (2020), 'Enlightenment ethnography on the global periphery : the case of the Duff missionary voyage to the South Pacific, 1796-1798', Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol 53, no 4 , pp 629 - 646.
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Irving, S. (2019), '"Redeemed from savagery" : sanctification and civilization in the accounts of Cook Islands missionaries Aaron Buzacott and John Williams', Missiology: An International Review, vol 47, no 3, pp 226 - 239.
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Irving, S. (2019), 'From Eden to savagery and civilization : British colonialism and humanity in the development of natural history, ca. 1600-1840', History of the Human Sciences, vol 32, no 4, pp 63 - 79.
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Irving, S. (2018), 'From Little Gidding to Virginia : the seventeenth century Ferrar family in the Atlantic colonial context', The Seventeenth Century, vol 33, no 2, pp 183 - 194.
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Irving, S. (2018), 'Theology, idolatry and science : John Williams' missionary ethnography and natural history of the South Pacific', Journal of Religious History, vol 42, no 3, pp 343 - 358.
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Irving, S. (2017), 'Nature, knowledge and civilisation : connecting the Atlantic and Pacific worlds in the Enlightenment', Itinerario, vol 41, no 1, pp 93 - 107.
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Irving, S. (2017), 'Disease and civilization : a Scottish Atlantic network of physicians in the Enlightenment', Britain and the World, vol 10, no 2, pp 197 - 216.
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Irving, S. (2017), '"The sagacity of the Indians" : William Dampier's surprising respect for indigenous knowledge', Journal of Early Modern History, vol 21, pp 543 - 564.
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Stonebraker, J. and Irving, S. (2015), 'Natural law and Protestantism : a historical reassessment, and its contemporary significance', Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, vol 4, no 3, pp 421 - 441.
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Irving, S. (2015), 'Beyond dominion and stewardship : humanity and nature in Puritan theology', American Theological Inquiry, vol 8, no 1, pp 49 - 59.
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Irving, S. (2014), 'Public knowledge, natural philosophy, and the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters', Early American Literature, vol 49, no 1, pp 67 - 88.
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Irving, S. (2014), 'Governing nature : the problem of Northern Australia', Australian Historical Studies, vol 45, no 3, pp 388 - 406.
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Stonebraker, J. and Irving, S. (2014), 'The just war tradition reconsidered : Protestantism and international law', Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, vol 3, no 3, pp 373 - 392.
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Irving, S. (2013), 'Rethinking corruption : natural knowledge and the New World in Joseph Hall's 'Mundus alter et idem' ', Journal of Early Modern Studies, vol 2, no 2, pp 150 - 168.
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Irving, S. (2012), 'Rethinking instrumentality : natural philosophy and Christian charity in the early modern Atlantic world', HOPOS : the Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, vol 2, pp 55 - 76.
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Irving, S. and et al, .. (2010), 'The history of Atlantic science : collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history', Atlantic Studies, vol 7, no 4, pp 397 - 419.
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Irving, S. (2006), ''In a pure soil': Colonial anxieties in the work of Francis Bacon', History of European Ideas, vol 32, no 3, pp 249 - 262.
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“Wrestling with Life’s Biggest Questions: How the New Atheism Drove a Historian to Christianity”, (2023), in Alister McGrath and Denis Alexander, eds., Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, (Grand Rapids: 2023).
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Irving, S. (2019), 'The surprising lineage of useful knowledge', Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie, The Boydell Press 9781783274505.
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Irving, S. (2007), 'An Empire restored : America and the Royal Society of London in the Restoration', America in the British Imagination, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1847181694.
- "Why History Matters in an Ahistoric Age" History's Last Stand podcast with Mike Bird for PremierUnbelievable UK https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-history-matters-in-an-ahistorical-age-sarah/id6793986584?i=1000784473044&l=es-MX
- Sir John Graham Lecture, 2026. "Our Rootless Age: How History Grounds Us". The Maxim Institute, Auckland, New Zealand, July 17th. Interview about the Lecture on TVNZ 1's Q+A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VtxOxXl_3Y
- "Why the West Has Forgotten to Think About History" NZ Initiative Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/leighton-smith-podcast-338-july-22nd-2026-sarah-irving/id1445358795?i=1000777811765
- The Leighton Smith podcast, #338 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/leighton-smith-podcast-338-july-22nd-2026-sarah-irving/id1445358795?i=1000777811765
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"The Ahistoric Age Meets AI" Posteverything podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ahistoric-age-meets-a-i-w-dr-sarah-irving-stonebraker/id1676174977?i=1000778868170
- Post Everything Podcast: History and Anxiety with Dr. S… - PostEverything - Apple Podcasts
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Hank Unplugged Podcast: Priests of History: Stewarding… - Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations - Apple Podcasts
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ABC Religion and Ethics Report: Why History Education Matters Today https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/religionandethicsreport/why-history-education-matters-today/1046184
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Dual Citizens Podcast: History, Faith & the West
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Life & Faith Podcast: Why history still matters
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Gospelbound Podcast with Collin Hansen: Overcoming our Ahistoric Age
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Confronting Christianity Podcast with Rebecca McLaughlin: Finding God in History
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Freedom for Faith Conference: FREEDOM24 – Freedom For Faith
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Undeceptions with John Dickson: Episode 134, History Wars
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Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God with Justin Brierley (Episode 3: Thank God for Richard Dawkins and Other Episodes)
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Confronting Christianity Podcast with Rebecca McLaughlin and Kyle Worley: Where Did Human Rights Come From?
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Undeceptions with John Dickson: Ahistoric Age
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Third Space’s The Edge: Wrestling with History in an Ahistoric Age.
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St Mark’s Lecture, 2022: The Death of History and the Hope of Christianity.
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Political Animals Podcast with Dr Jonathan Cole: Religious Liberty: A History.
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Evangelical History Association Conference Keynote, 2022.
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Freedom for Faith Conference, 2022 on the History of Religious Freedom and its Implications for the Current Debate.
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John Anderson Podcast on the History of Religious Freedom.
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Millis Podcast on the History of Religious Freedom.
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Conversation between Rachel and Ross Ciano and Sarah Irving-Stonebraker.
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The Gospel Coalition Australia, Everyday Conversations Podcast, The History of Human Rights: Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, Natasha Moore and Rebecca McLaughlin.
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Conversation between Gary Koo and Sarah Irving-Stonebraker.
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Conversation between Sam Chan and Sarah Irving-Stonebraker.
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Conversation between Rebecca McLaughlin and Sarah Irving-Stonebraker.
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2020 Richard Johnson Lecture: Free To Be Me? The Forgotten Story of Religious Liberty.
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Undeceptions Podcast with John Dickson (2019): Episode 9: Dominus Illuminatio.
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Wenona School, Foundation Day Address (2019).
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Life & Faith Podcast – Centre for Public Christianity (2018): Surprised by Peter Singer.
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Sydney Morning Herald (2018): They topped the HSC over the past 40 years - what are they doing now?
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ABC News Article (2018): What happened to the top students of the class of 1998.
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Veritas Forum (2017): How Oxford and Peter Singer drove me from Atheism to Jesus.