Entries from December 2006

December 22, 2006

Fuller’s Emphasis on the Beauty of Christ

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 [...]

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 [...]