What is the value of history and what does history say about Patrick. What is his legacy to us today?

Dr Crawford Gribben
He is a historian of early modern religion, and the author of books including most recently The rise and fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021).He has held posts in early modern literature and history at the University of Manchester (2004-2007) and Trinity College Dublin (2000-2004, 2007-2012). After taking up a position at Queen's (2013), he acted as head of the School of History and Anthropology (2015-16) and as Queen's director of the AHRC Northern Bridge PhD programme (2017-2020).


Books by Crawford:
-J. N. Darby and the birth of dispensationalism (in preparation).
-The rise and fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021).
-Survival and resistance in evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford University Press, 2021).
-An introduction to John Owen (Crossway, 2020), translated into Portuguese as John Owen: Uma visão cristã para cada fase da vida (Rio de Janiero: Pro Nobis Editora, 2021).
-John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of defeat (Oxford University Press, 2016)
-Evangelical millennialism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
-Writing the rapture: Prophecy fiction in evangelical America (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-God's Irishmen: Theological debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2007)
-The puritan millennium: Literature and theology, 1550-1682 (Four Courts, 2000)