Andrew Fuller E-Book

John Piper

• Herausgeber: Crossway
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 61

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Although he never went abroad, Andrew Fuller was a zealous promoter of world missions, influencing countless missionaries, such as William Carey, and championing the importance of sound doctrine for the perseverance and fruitfulness of world evangelism. In this short biography, John Piper puts Fuller's movement-inspiring life and theology on display, calling all Christians to devote themselves to knowing, guarding, and spreading the true gospel—even to the very ends of the earth.

Leseprobe

Thank you for downloading this Crossway book.

Sign up for the Crossway Newsletter for updates on special offers, new resources, and exciting global ministry initiatives:

Crossway Newsletter

Or, if you prefer, we would love to connect with you online:

Andrew Fuller

Other Books by John Piper

Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce

Battling Unbelief

Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

A Camaraderie of Confidence (Swans 7)

Contending for Our All (Swans 4)

The Dangerous Duty of Delight

The Dawning of Indestructible Joy

Desiring God

Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

Don’t Waste Your Life

Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die

Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ (Swans 5)

Finally Alive

Five Points

Future Grace

God Is the Gospel

God’s Passion for His Glory

A Godward Heart

A Godward Life

The Hidden Smile of God (Swans 2)

A Hunger for God

John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God

The Legacy of Sovereign Joy (Swans 1)

Lessons from a Hospital Bed

Let the Nations Be Glad!

A Peculiar Glory

The Pleasures of God

The Roots of Endurance (Swans 3)

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ

Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully (Swans 6)

Spectacular Sins

The Supremacy of God in Preaching

A Sweet and Bitter Providence

Taste and See

Think

This Momentary Marriage

What Jesus Demands from the World

What’s the Difference?

When I Don’t Desire God

Andrew Fuller

Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Mission

John Piper

Foreword by Michael A. G. Haykin

Andrew Fuller: Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Mission

Copyright © 2016 by Desiring God Foundation

Published by Crossway1300 Crescent StreetWheaton, Illinois 60187

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law. Crossway® is a registered trademark in the United States of America.

Cover design: Josh Dennis

Cover image: Glenn Harrington

First printing 2016

Printed in the United States of America

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

All emphases in Scripture quotations have been added by the author.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-5189-5ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-5192-5PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-5190-1Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-5191-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Piper, John, 1946– author.

Title: Andrew Fuller : holy faith, worthy gospel, world mission / John Piper.

Description: Wheaton: Crossway, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016000996 (print) | LCCN 2016013575 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433551895 (tp) | ISBN 9781433551925 (epub) | ISBN 9781433551901 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433551918 (mobi)

Subjects: LCSH: Fuller, Andrew, 1754–1815. | Baptists—England—Clergy—Biography.

Classification: LCC BX6495.F75 P57 2016 (print) | LCC BX6495.F75 (ebook) | DDC 286/.1092—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016000996

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

2022-03-03 04:09:37 PM

Contents

Foreword by Michael A. G. Haykin

An Andrew Fuller Chronology

 1  A Mind for Modern Missions

 2  Great Gain, Great Loss, Great Perseverance

 3  Andrew Fuller the Thinker

 4  Fuller against Hyper-Calvinism

 5  Fuller against Sandemanianism

 6  The Vital Link between Doctrine and World Missions

Foreword

Near the beginning of the funeral sermon that John Ryland Jr. (1753–1825) preached for Andrew Fuller in 1815, Ryland described Fuller as “perhaps the most judicious and able theological writer that ever belonged to our [i.e., the Calvinistic Baptist] denomination.”1 Although Fuller was Ryland’s closest friend and confidant, Ryland’s judgment is by no means skewed. Joseph Belcher, the editor of the standard nineteenth-century edition of Fuller’s collected works, believed that those works would “go down to posterity side by side with the immortal works of the elder president Edwards [i.e., Jonathan Edwards Sr.],”2 while Charles Haddon Spurgeon described Fuller as “the greatest theologian” of his century.3 And in an allusion to his weighty theological influence, the nineteenth-century Welsh author David Phillips called Fuller the “elephant of Kettering.”4

Despite these glowing tributes to Fuller as a theologian, come the twentieth century, he was largely forgotten. There were only two biographies of him during this entire period, those of Gilbert Laws and Arthur H. Kirkby. Neither was a major study, and Kirkby’s was but a booklet.5 With the advent of the present century, however, there has been a veritable renaissance of scholarly and popular interest in Fuller and his theological perspectives.6 And in this renaissance, this essay by Dr. John Piper provides those interested in Fuller with a unique perspective. A New Testament scholar by training, Piper has devoted the bulk of his ministry to the regular exposition of the Scriptures in the context of the local church. He has an abiding interest in church history, having been exposed, at an early stage in his walk with God, to the riches of the writings of Jonathan Edwards, who also deeply shaped Fuller, and those of C. S. Lewis. And for many years, at the annual midwinter Desiring God Conference for pastors, Piper would give a paper dealing with a major figure from church history.7 I was fascinated to learn that in 2007 he had decided to speak on Fuller. And as the following study reveals, Piper clearly regards Fuller as having been a significant “game changer” in the history of God’s people. As Piper stresses, one key area of Fuller’s great impact is the globalization of Christianity: Fuller provides the pioneers of the modern missionary movement with a robust theology of missions that was hammered out in the context of theological controversy with hyper-Calvinism and Sandemanianism.

While Fuller excelled as an apologist, he was also a gifted expositor of Scripture and even wrote a biographical memoir of his close friend Samuel Pearce of Birmingham, who died in 1799 at the age of thirty-three. Modeled after Jonathan Edwards’s life of David Brainerd, this memoir recounted the life of one whom Fuller regarded as a sterling model of evangelical and mission-minded piety. Through the medium of Fuller’s book, Pearce’s extraordinary passion for Christ—which led to his being labeled the “seraphic Pearce” by contemporaries—and his zeal for missions had a powerful impact on his generation, nearly as much as Fuller’s formal treatises on missions. One London diarist noted in 1805 that he had been reading Fuller’s memoir of Pearce, “that truly eminent and pious man.” It led the writer to cry out, “Oh that I had but a double portion of his spirit, that I may be as useful, as zealous, as active, as diligent, as pious, as affectionate, as worthy of imitation, as fit for glory as he was!” May this be the reaction of the reader of this little book on Fuller. May it not only inform the mind, but also enflame the heart!8

Michael A. G. Haykin,

Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality,

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary;

Director, The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies

1. John Ryland Jr., The Indwelling and Righteousness of Christ No Security against Corporeal Death, but the Source of Spiritual and Eternal Life (London: W. Button & Son, 1815), 2–3. Ryland went on to write the classic study of Fuller’s life: