An exploration of the pastoral theology of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) suggests that evangelical renewal did not only take place alongside the local church - missions, itinerancy, voluntary societies - but also within the congregation as the central tasks of dissenting pastoral ministry became, in the words of one diarist, 'very affecting and evangelical'.
How did evangelicalism transform dissenting and Baptist churches in the eighteenth century? Is there a distinctively congregational expression of evangelicalism? And what contribution has evangelicalism made to pastoral theology? renewal did not only take place alongside the local church - missions, itinerancy, voluntary societies - but also within the congregation as dissenting pastoral ministry became, in the words of one diarist, 'very affecting and evangelical'.
Keith S. Grant is a PhD Candidate in history at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, studying evangelicalism and print culture in the Atlantic world. He is the author of Andrew Fuller and the Evangelical Renewal of Pastoral Theology. He lives with his family near Fredericton, New Brunswick.
