Andrew Fuller

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Andrew Fuller (born February 5, 1754 in Wicken ( Cambridgeshire ), ( England ), † May 7, 1815 in Kettering ( Northamptonshire )) was an English Baptist theologian .

Life

Andrew Fuller was born the son of an English farmer. At the age of 15 he had a conversion experience , was baptized, and became a member of a Baptist church. Fuller studied theology in self-tuition and was ordained as pastor of a Baptist church in Solam in 1775 . In 1782 he started a pastoral position in Kettering, Northamptshire. At first Fuller was shaped by the Calvinist doctrine of predestination , which was increasingly influenced by the methodism formed by John Wesley . Based on his own history, he developed a theology that linked Calvinism with the concern for mission. On the initiative of William Carey , whom he had baptized in 1787, the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) was founded in 1793 , which was instrumental in the worldwide spread of Protestantism . While Carey went to India as a missionary in 1793 , Fuller was the first managing director of BMS until he fell ill with tuberculosis and died in 1815 .

literature

  • Robert W. Oliver: History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1771-1892. From John Gill to CH Spurgeon , Banner of Truth, 2006, ISBN 978-0-85151-920-3
  • Paul Brewster: Andrew Fuller: Model Pastor-Theologian (Studies in Baptist Life and Thought) , Broadman Pr, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8054-4982-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Gordon Melton: Fuller, Andrew (1754-1815) . founder of the worldwide Protestant missionary endeavor. In: Encyclopedia of World Religions . Encyclopedia of Protestantism, No. 6 . Facts of File, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-8160-5456-5 , pp. 239 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English theologian and Baptist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Sweet peas ( Cambridgeshire )
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1815
Place of death Kettering, Northamptonshire