Two new volumes in The Collected Works of Andrew Fuller

Two new titles coming out this year, DV, in “The Works of Andrew Fuller,” being published by Walter De Gruyter:

Volume 8: The Gospel Its Own Witness, edited by Joe Harrod

Although Deism had passed its main zenith of influence by the lifetime of Andrew Fuller, the publication of Thomas Paine's popular two-volume The Age of Reason gave this species of heterodoxy, for so Fuller viewed it, a new lease on life. Fuller responded with The Gospel Its Own Witness (1799), in which he not only engaged with 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, including Voltaire and Rousseau. 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.

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Volume 10: Correspondence with William Vidler and Abraham Booth, edited by Chris Chun

In the wake of the Enlightenment, a number of theological and philosophical positions emerged that challenged Christian orthodoxy as it had been established in the various traditions that had their matrix in the Reformation. 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. A significant difference over the nature of the atonement, though, led to a theological clash and the publication of a series of letters by Fuller that had ongoing reverberations in the transatlantic Baptist and evangelical world throughout the nineteenth century.