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The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller

Andrew Fuller

Herausgegeben von: Michael Haykin

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The writings of Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) are increasingly recognized as key documents in both the Baptist story and the wider history of Evangelical Christianity. The aim of this project is to publish a modern critical edition of the entire corpus of Andrew Fuller’s published and unpublished works in sixteen volumes. The annotations that accompany each text present textual problems and variant readings. In the introductory essays, annotations, and headnotes, the editors will delineate Fuller’s historical context and intellectual influences. The publication of these sixteen volumes coincides with a significant renaissance in Fuller studies over the last three decades, demonstrated by a growing body of monographs and dissertations as well as scholarly conferences focusing on this important English thinker.

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Buch 2016

Volume 1 The Diary of Andrew Fuller, 1780-1801

Michael D. McMullen, Timothy D. Whelan

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Despite his prominent role during the last quarter of the eighteenth century in promoting evangelical Calvinism among British Particular Baptists, only portions of the diary of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815), one of the most important surviving manuscripts from that century, have appeared in print in various volumes published between 1816 and 1882, portions usually inaccurately transcribed and highly editorialized. The current edition is the first complete and accurate transcription of Fuller’s diary based on the sole surviving volume now residing at Bristol Baptist College. This edition, with exhaustive identifications, notes, and valuable appendices for students of Baptist history, provides a fascinating glimpse into Fuller’s ministry at Soham and Kettering during a period (1780-1801) when he became the titular head of the Particular Baptists as a result of his preaching throughout Northamptonshire and surrounding counties; his writing, such as his influential work, The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation (1785); and his multi-national work as founding secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society (1792), a position he diligently maintained until his death in 1815, having left a legacy unequalled by any other minister of his generation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420050
ISBN:: 9783110420050
ISBN:: 9783110420180
ISBN:: 9783110412840
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2017

Volume 4 Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Pearce

Michael Haykin

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Clearly modeled on Jonathan Edwards' life of David Brainerd, Andrew Fuller's memoir for his close friend Samuel Pearce was written out of the conviction that telling the stories of the lives of remarkable Christians is a means of grace for the church. This new critical edition of the memoir is based on the 1808 third edition and documents the way that Fuller modified the text after its original printing in 1800. A substantial introduction discusses the evangelical use of biography, sets the memoir in the context of Fuller's literary corpus, and provides an overview of Pearce's life, touching on areas not fully treated by Fuller.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110457926
ISBN:: 9783110457926
ISBN:: 9783110414103
ISBN:: 9783110457674
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Volume 7 Apologetic Works 3

Socinianism

Andrew Fuller, Thomas J. Nettles, Michael Haykin, Baiyu Song

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When Socinianism was at the height of its power, Andrew Fuller challenged it in its self-professed point of greatest strength --the virtue encouraged by its principles of theistic rationality. Do the extended implications of its principles compare favorably with Calvinism in the development of virtue?

Using their own writings and the admissions they make concerning piety and virtue among Socinians, Fuller compared both systems in their tendency to convert profligates to a life of holiness, to convert professed unbelievers, their development of a standard of morality, to encourage love to God, candor and benevolence toward men, encourage humility and charity, promote love for Christ and veneration of Scripture, develop happiness, cheerfulness, gratitude, obedience, and heavenly-mindedness in the followers of the respective systems. If challenged that he is being judgmental and has focused on subjective criteria, Fuller replied that he is merely engaging the Socinians at the place where they have invited investigation. Fuller intended to lay bare the emptiness of the Socinian boast to virtue.

The work first was published in 1793.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420500
ISBN:: 9783110420500
ISBN:: 9783110420593
ISBN:: 9783110414356
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Volume 8 Apologetic Works 4

Deism

Joseph C. Harrod

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In The Gospel Its Own Witness (1799), Andrew Fuller not only engaged with Thomas Paine’s attack on Christianity and on the reliability of the Bible, but also interacted with the philosophical position of a number of Enlightenment thinkers. This critical edition is based on the third edition of Fuller’s treatise (1802) and includes a detailed introduction that sets the work in its provenance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110420463
ISBN:: 9783110420463
ISBN:: 9783110420586
ISBN:: 9783110414073
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2016

Volume 9 Apologetic Works 5

Strictures on Sandemanianism

Nathan A. Finn

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Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) was the leading Baptist theologian of his era, though his works are just now being made available in a critical edition. Strictures on Sandemanianism is the fourth volume in The Works of Andrew Fuller. In this treatise, Fuller critiqued Sandemanianism, a form of Restorationism that first emerged in Scotland in the eighteenth century and was influencing the Scotch Baptists of Fuller's day. Fuller's biggest concern was the Sandemanian belief that saving faith is merely intellectual assent to the gospel. Fuller believed this "intellectualist" view of faith undermined evangelical spirituality. Strictures on Sandemanianism became a leading evangelical critique of Sandemanian views. This critical edition will introduce scholars to this important work and shed light on evangelical debates about the faith, justification, and sanctification during the latter half of the "long" eighteenth century (ca. 1750 to 1815).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110418460
ISBN:: 9783110418460
ISBN:: 9783110418521
ISBN:: 9783110412857
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2025

Volume 10 Apologetic Works 6

Chris Chun

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In the wake of the Enlightenment, a number of theological and philosophical positions emerged that challenged Christian orthodoxy. The espousal of universalism by William Vidler, one-time Baptist pastor, was felt to be influential enough by Andrew Fuller that he sought to refute it in a series of letters that he brought together in an 1802 publication. This volume provides a critical introduction to both Vidler’s theological position and Fuller’s response to it. Also included is a critical edition of and introduction to Fuller’s debate with his fellow Particular Baptist Abraham Booth, for whom Fuller had a huge measure of admiration. Their debate over the nature of the atonement had ongoing reverberations in the transatlantic Baptist and evangelical world throughout the nineteenth century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110420449
ISBN:: 9783110420449
ISBN:: 9783110420647
ISBN:: 9783110414127
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Volume 11 Apology for the Late Christian Missions to India

Andrew Fuller, Peter Morden

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Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) was a pastor whose ministry coincided with the revitalization of the English Calvinistic Baptist denomination of which he was a distinguished member. He was a pathbreaking theologian, apologist, and spiritual biographer, who throughout his career remained rooted in the local church. Yet despite his multiple achievements, Fuller was probably best known at the end of his life as a pioneering missionary statesman. He was one of the founders and principal advocates of the Baptist Missionary Society, serving as the new society’s secretary from its inception in 1792 until his death. His Apology for the Late Christian Missions to India was published in 1808 to defend the BMS missionaries from those who wanted them recalled from ‘British India’ for damaging colonial interests. In the Apology, Fuller shares his passion for overseas cross-cultural mission, a passion which came to define his ministry for many of his contemporaries and also, to a significant degree, for subsequent generations. In the Apology Fuller advocates on their behalf. This new edition of the Apology includes a 30,000-word introduction setting the context, and full notes on the text itself. It is of interest to theologians and missiologists as well as specialists in the history of Christian cross-cultural mission, colonialism, and the intersection between the two.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420487
ISBN:: 9783110420487
ISBN:: 9783110420623
ISBN:: 9783110414059
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Volume 15 Revelation

Expository Discourses on the Apocalypse

Crawford Gribben

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Andrew Fuller's commentary on Revelation (1815) appeared as one of the final statements of his long engagement with biblical apocalyptic writing. Fuller thought through his eschatological commitments as he moved from the high Calvinism of his early ministry to the evangelical Calvinism of his later life. The early influence of Gill - which included an eccentric combination of positions later identified as pre- and post-millennial - gave way to an evangelical piety strongly influenced by the writings of Jonathan Edwards. Fuller was deeply influenced by Edwards' support for evangelical revival, and by his expectation that the gospel would sweep victoriously across the globe. Fuller's commentary on Revelation, published in the year following his death, offers access to one of his last series of sermons, to his mature understanding of how divine providence was unfolding the mysteries of biblical prophecy, and to the robust post-millennial optimism that did so much to support his enthusiasm for global missionary work.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420401
ISBN:: 9783110420401
ISBN:: 9783110420616
ISBN:: 9783110414370
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Neues Testament
Fachgebiet:: Johanneische Schriften
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Volume 17 The Life of Andrew Fuller

A Critical Edition of John Ryland's Biography

Christopher Ryan Griffith

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Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), perhaps the most prominent Particular Baptist of the eighteenth century, has been the subject of much scholarly interest in recent years. No comparative study, however, has been done on the two biographies that give us much of our knowledge of Fuller’s life. John Ryland Jr. (1753–1826), Fuller’s closest friend and ministry partner, not only supervised the publication of Fuller’s works, but sought to give a careful accounting of his friend’s piety. But Ryland’s volume stood in contrast with the less-flattering portrait painted by publisher and pastor, J.W. Morris (1763–1836). This critical edition of Ryland’s 1816 biography provides contextual background and comparative analysis of the two volumes, and shows how Ryland amended his text for its 1818 republication in light of Morris' work. It also demonstrates the profound influence of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) on Ryland’s biographical approach. While Edwards’s influence on Ryland and Fuller is widely known, this volume shows how Edwards’s biographical work, especially that of David Brainerd, influenced Ryland’s aim to promote “pure and undefiled religion” through recounting the life of his friend.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634778
ISBN:: 9783110634778
ISBN:: 9783110635614
ISBN:: 9783110633245
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Konfessionskunde, Ökumene, Interkulturelle Theologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter