Journal: Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
Volume: SBJT 17:1 (Spring 2013)
Article: The SBJT Forum
Author: Anonymous

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SBTJ 17:1 (Spring 2013) p. 46

The SBJT Forum

SBJT: The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies here at Southern Seminary is involved in spearheading the publication of a critical edition of Fuller’s works. What are some of the details of this project and why is it needed?

Michael A. G. Haykin is Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He is also Adjunct Professor of Church History and Spirituality at Toronto Baptist Seminary in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Haykin is the author of many books, including “At the Pure Fountain of Thy Word”: Andrew Fuller As an Apologist (Paternoster Press, 2004), Jonathan Edwards: The Holy Spirit in Revival (Evangelical Press, 2005), and The God Who Draws Near: An Introduction to Biblical Spirituality (Evangelical Press, 2007), and Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church (Crossway, 2011).

Michael Haykin: The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies is currently committed to the publication of a complete critical edition of the works of Andrew Fuller through the publishing house of Walter de Gruyter (www.degruyter.com), which has head offices in Berlin and Boston. Walter de Gruyter has been synonymous with high-quality, landmark publications in both the humanities and sciences for more than 260 years. The preparation of a critical edition of Fuller’s works was first envisioned in 2004. It is expected that this edition will comprise sixteen volumes and take seven or so years to publish.

The controlling objective of The Works of Andrew Fuller Project is to preserve and accurately transmit the text of Fuller’s writings. The editors are committed to the finest scholarly standards for textual transcription, editing, and annotation.  Transmitting these texts is a vital task since Fuller’s writings, not only for their volume, extent, and scope, but for their enduring importance, are major documents in both the Baptist story and the larger history of British Dissent.

From a merely human perspective, if Fuller’s theological works had not been written, William Carey would not have gone to India. Fuller’s theology was the mainspring behind the formation and early development of the Baptist Missionary Society, the first foreign missionary society created by the Evangelical Revival of the last half of the eighteenth century and the missionary society under whose auspices Carey went to India. Very soon, other missionary societies were established, and a new era in missions had begun as the Christian faith was increasingly spread outside of the West, to the regions of Africa and

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