Crawford Gribben, Ph.D. (Strathclyde), F.R.Hist.S.

Professor of Early Modern British History, Queen's University Belfast

Dr Gribben's research centres on the development and dissemination of religious ideas, especially in terms of apocalyptic and millennial thought, in the print cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism.

He was a Visiting Research Fellow of the MWRC in summer 2022 for a project on ‘J. N. Darby and the Birth of Dispensationalism’. A video recording of his presentation ‘J. N. Darby as a Charismatic Theologian’ can be watched here.

Select Publications

J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford University Press, 2021).

The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021)

 An Introduction to John Owen (Crossway, 2020)

The Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe (co-editor with Graeme Murdock) (Oxford, 2019).

Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature (co-editor with Kathleen Miller) (Manchester University Press, 2017).

John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford, 2016).

Puritans and Catholics in the trans-Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (co-editor with Scott Spurlock) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Left Behind and the Evangelical Imagination (edited with Mark Sweetnam) (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011).

Evangelical Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1550-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Literature and the Scottish Reformation (co-editor with David G. Mullan) (Ashgate, 2009).

Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America (Oxford, 2009).

'Irish and Welsh Puritanism', in The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, ed. John Coffey (Cambridge, 2008).

God's Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford, 2007).

'Antichrist in Ireland: Protestant Millennialism and Irish Studies', in Crawford Gribben and Andrew R. Holmes eds, Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2000 (Palgrave McMillan, 2006).

Expecting the End: Millennialism in Social and Historical Context (co-editor with Kenneth Newport) (Baylor University Press, 2006).

Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005, co-editor with Andrew R. Holmes (Palgrave Mcmillan, 2006). 

'Rhetoric, fiction and Theology: James Ussher and the Death of Jesus Christ', The Seventeenth Century 20:1 (2005), 53-76.

Rapture Fiction: And the Evangelical Crisis (EP Books, 2006).

Prisoners of Hope? Aspects of Evangelical Millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1880  (co-editor with Timothy C. F. Stunt) (Wipf & Stock, 2004).

The Puritan Millennium: Literature and theology, 1550-1682 (2000) rev edn (Wipf & Stock, 2008). 

Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (Palgrave) (co-editor of series)

Scottish Religious Cultures (Edinburgh University Press) (co-editor of series)

email: c.gribben@qub.ac.uk