Crawford Gribben je profesor historie na Queen's University v Belfastu. Jeho práce se zaměřuje na kulturní a literární historii, zejména na vývoj a šíření náboženských myšlenek. Zkoumá, jak se tyto myšlenky formovaly a jak ovlivňovaly společnost a literaturu v průběhu času. Jeho analýzy poskytují hluboký vhled do propojení historie, kultury a náboženství.
The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples, from earliest times to the present day.
The essays explore the enforcement of the Protestant Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, examining the motives and methods of political authorities in both regions. By comparing their varying degrees of success, the volume provides a deeper understanding of the complexities of confessionalization in Europe. The international perspective enriches the discussion, highlighting the broader implications of these historical events on the religious landscape of the time.
For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself. For many Irish Catholics, by contrast, the new world became associated with the experience of defeat, forced transportation, indentured service, cultural and religious loss. And yet, as the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the Atlantic experience of puritans and Catholics could be much less bifurcated than some of the established scholarly narratives have suggested: puritans and Catholics could co-exist within the same trans-Atlantic families; Catholics could prosper, just as puritans could experience financial decline; and Catholics and puritans could adopt, and exchange, similar kinds of belief structures and practical arrangements, even to the extent of being mistaken for each other. This volume investigates the history of Puritans and Catholics in the Atlantic world, 1600-1800.
John Nelson Darby is best known as the architect of the most influential system of end-times thinking among the world's half-a-billion evangelicals. This book re-examines Darby's thought and argues that claims that Darby is the father of dispensationalism may need to be revised.