Andrew Fuller’s commentary on Revelation

Colleagues from the Trinity Millennialism Project are beginning work on a scholarly edition of the commentary on Revelation written by the Particular Baptist theologian Andrew Fuller (1815). Crawford Gribben and his research assistant, Rory Loughnane, have been granted funding by the Panacea Society.

Amy Frykholm lecture in Trinity

You are invited to a lecture by Amy Frykholm, entitled “Guns, Girls and God: The Cultural Politics of American Christian Apocalypticism.” The lecture will be held at 4pm on Thursday 28 May 2009 in room A6009, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin. The event is free and all are welcome to attend.

Amy earned her PhD at Duke, and is a research associate of the Trinity Millennialism Project. Amy has become very well known as the author of the premier account of “prophecy fiction,” Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America (Oxford University Press, 2004), which is important not just for its insights into the Left Behind phenomenon, but also for its reconstruction of reading habits within the world of popular literature. Amy is currently completing a biography of Julian of Norwich. You can read her blog at www.amyfrykholm.com.

Trinity College and the Origins of Dispensationalism Conference Cancelled

Regretably the Trinity Millennialism Conference of dispensational origins planned for September of this year will now not be running. We apologise for any disappointment caused.

Reading the Revelation at the Trinity Millennialism Project

This event is kindly supported by The Panacea Society and the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies at Trinity

Reading the Revelation: Protestants and the Apocalypse 1550-1700 Schedule

The fine detail of this schedule is still provisional, but speakers and paper titles are (hopefully) locked down by now.

Thursday, April 16

Session 1:

9:30-10:30        Prof. Kenneth Newport (Liverpool Hope University) – “Texts, Contexts and Eisegesis: The Book of Revelation and its Readers c. 1500-1750″

10:30-10:45      Coffee Break

10:45-11:45      Dr Jeff Jue (Westminster Theological Seminary) – “Biblical Exegesis and the Apocalypse in the Era of the Reformation”

11:45-12:45      Rev. Mark Jones (Leiden University) – “How History Informs the ‘Historicist’: Thomas Goodwin’s Reading of Revelation”

 

12:45-2:00        Lunch Break

 

Session 2:

2:00-3:00          Prof. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Trinity College Dublin) – “Postponing the ending in Spenser”

3:00-4:00          Dr Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College Dublin) – “‘A propheticall glasse, a perspective of visions’: Donne and Revelation”

4:00-4:15          Coffee Break

4:15-5:15          Dr Crawford Gribben (Trinity College Dublin) – “Marvell and the Millennium”

 

6:15                  Conference Dinner

 

Friday, April 17

Session 3:

9:30-10:30        Dr Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter) – “Apocalypse and Apotheosis in Milton’s Early Poems”

10:30-10:45      Coffee Break

< 10:45-11:45      Mr Matthew Vogan (Independent Scholar) – “Visual Experience and Interpretation in John Bunyan’s Sermon-Treatises on Revelation.” (Paper read by Rory Loughnane)

11:45-12:45      Ms Kathleen Miller (Trinity College Dublin) – “‘Shall a Trumpet be blown in the City, and the people not be afraid?’: Thomas Vincent’s God’s Terrible Voice in the City (1667)”

 

 12:45-1:00       Closing Discussion

 

Reading the Revelation: Protestants and the Apocalypse

You are invited to attend an international and interdisciplinary conference to be held in Trinity College Dublin April 17-17, 2009.
For further details, check this blog, or contact sweetnam [at] tcd.ie.

Funding for research in millennial studies

Prospective PhD students and post-doctoral research fellows can apply for funding to work in the Trinity Millennialism Project. Full details are available here.

New details on Jonestown

When millennialism goes wrong, it goes badly wrong. A recent discovery of a family archive sheds light on life in the community in which there occured the most notorious mass suicide in American history. Click here for details.

On the financial apocalypse …

The Daily Telegraph gets all apocalyptic here.

Trinity College, Powerscourt, and the Origins of Dispensationalism, 2-3 September 2009

Following the success of Darby Day earlier this month, preparations are underway for a larger conference to be held at the Trinity Millennialism Project on September 2-3, 2009.

We hope to be joined by some of the leading scholars of dispensational origins from both sides of the Atlantic.

Further details will be announced on this blog, so check back.