Two new books on millenarian thinking hit (too) close to home.

Crawford Gribben is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and the author of several books on apocalyptic religion, including Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Evangelical Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500–2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).