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The Trinity Millennialism Project
Project Leader: Dr Crawford Gribben
The Trinity Millennialism Project, which operates under the auspices of the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies, investigates the intellectual history of protestant millennial belief, and particularly the history of the “dispensational premillennialism” that emerged in circles associated with Trinity College Dublin in the early nineteenth century.
The Millennialism Project has organized a series of international colloquia in Dublin, Oxford and Liverpool. These conferences, and their resulting research inititives, have resulted in the publication of a number of volumes,  including Left Behind and the Evangelical Imagination (forthcoming), Expecting the end: Millennialism in social and historical context (Baylor UP, 2006), Protestant millennialism, evangelicalism and Irish society, 1790–2005 (Palgrave, 2006), and Prisoners of hope?: Aspects of evangelical millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800–1880 (Paternoster, 2004). The next event in the series, which is being co-organized by Crawford Gribben and Mark Sweetnam, is entitled, “Trinity College, Powerscourt, and the origins of dispensationalism,” is expected to be held in June 2009.
Crawford Gribben, who directs the project, is also the author of The Puritan millennium: literature and theology, 1550–1682 (Four Courts, 2000) and God's Irishmen: Theological debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford UP, 2007), and Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America (Oxford University Press, 2008). He is currently completing a general history of trans-Atlantic evangelical millennialism from the reformation to the present day. Dr Gribben would be delighted to hear from anyone interested in postgraduate work in millennial studies.
Research associates of the Trinity Millennialism Project:
Amy Johnson Frykholm is author of Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America (Oxford University Press, 2004) and works as special correspondent to The Christian Century writing on issues of religion and culture. Her current research is on sexuality in American Christianity.
John Walliss is Director of the Centre for Millennialism Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope University, and is the author of a number of studies of millennial cultures, including Apocalyptic Trajectories: Millenarianism and Violence in the Contemporary World (Peter Lang, 2004), and Apocalypse in Uganda: The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (Ashgate, forthcoming). He is also editor for the Sheffield Phoenix Press series The Apocalypse and Popular Culture.
Mark Sweetnam is an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar with doctoral research interests in the sources of religious authority in the thought of John Donne and extended research interests in early modern literature and evangelical missionary writing. Mark has published a number of articles on dispensational theology and culture, and is currently involved in editing collections of essays on dispensational spirituality and the Left Behind phenomenon.
Links:
Centre for Millennialism Studies, Liverpool Hope University
Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University
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