Andrew Fuller and the Search for a Faith Worthy of All Acceptation: Exploring Fullers Soteriology in Its Historical Context

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The eighteenth-century English minister Andrew Fuller lived a consequential life, debating noteworthy contemporaries such as Thomas Paine and contributing to the pioneering international work of William Carey. However, his soteriology remains his most significant theological contribution. Fuller explored the role that human agency plays in salvations reception, and he offered substantive theological proposals that many religious historians now credit with advancing the Evangelical Revival. Fullers work was both traditional and creative. He sought faithfulness to the broader Protestant tradition but developed that tradition in unique and contextually relevant ways. Despite Fullers influence, much research into his life and work remains. Andrew Fuller and the Search for a Faith Worthy of All Acceptation examines heretofore underutilized primary sources related to Fullers theological development. It attends to neglected texts produced by Fullers opponents and mentors. Analysing these sources provides a fresh reading of Fullers historical setting, one that contextualizes his theology and illuminates his constructive work on faith as a human response to the Gospel. This new interpretation allows scholars to discern more accurately the concepts that animated Fuller, the persons he sought to refute, and the sources on which he relied. This interpretation of Fuller challenges assumptions in contemporary scholarship and raises new questions for further research.

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David Mark Rathel is Associate Professor of Christian Theology and Directory of PhD and ThM research at Gateway Seminary in Los Angeles, USA.