This post is the fourth (and final) in a series examining Fuller’s spirituality as found in his written correspondence. The first post in this series may be accessed by clicking here, the second here, and the third here. I think that the topic of this fourth and final post is an appropriate one with [...]
Entries from December 2006
December 20, 2006
Fuller’s Dependence Upon the Holy Spirit and Prayer
This post is the third in a series examining Fuller’s spirituality found in his written correspondence. The first post in this series may be accessed by clicking here, the second by clicking here.
Fuller’s recognition of his utter inadequacies as both a Christian and a Minister of the Gospel drove him to greater dependence upon the [...]
December 18, 2006
Andrew Fuller and Confederate Soldiers
During the American Civil War, Baptists in the north and south published thousands of evangelistic tracts to be distributed among the soldiers. Among the many Confederate-produced tracts was one written by Andrew Fuller, “The Great Question Answered,” which is available in volume 3 of the Belcher edition of Fuller’s Works, pp. 540-549.
Fast forward to the [...]
December 16, 2006
Fuller’s Sense of His Own Inadequacies
This post is the second in a series examining Fuller’s spirituality found in his written correspondence. The first post in this series may be accessed by clicking here.
One of the most surprising of the recurring themes which I noted in Fuller’s letters was his obvious recognition of his own inadequacy both as a saint [...]
December 11, 2006
Getting to Know Andrew Fuller . . . and Ourselves
An excellent place to begin reading Fuller is with his letters as compiled in The Armies of the Lamb: The Spirituality of Andrew Fuller which were edited by our own Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin. After offering a brief biographical sketch, Haykin then gives the actual text of the letters, along with footnotes to describe [...]
December 3, 2006
First Image of the New "Complete Works of Andrew Fuller" From Paternoster Press
If you are a fan of fantasy, you may run out and pre-order the next Harry Potter book. If you are a fan of law, you may run out and pre-order the next John Grisham book. But, if you are a fan of Baptist History, you must run out and get this!
Finally, we have a [...]
December 2, 2006
Edwardsean and Fullerite Scholarship to Date
October 5, 2003 marked the tercentennial of the birth of Jonathan Edwards. Since the publication of Perry Miller’s intellectual biography in 1949, there has been a rediscovery of Edwards in North America and Britain. Today, exhaustive reading of secondary sources in the field of Edwards is virtually an impossible [...]