The Andrew Fuller Center also helps co-ordinate The Works of Andrew Fuller Project. The aim of this project is to publish a modern critical edition of the entire corpus of Andrew Fuller’s published and unpublished works by 2014. This edition will comprise fifteen volumes and will be published by Paternoster Press.
The controlling objective of The Works of Andrew Fuller Project is to preserve and accurately transmit the text of Fuller’s writings. The editors are committed to the finest scholarly standards for textual transcription, editing, and annotation. They are convinced that transmitting these texts is a vital task, since Fuller’s writings-not only for their volume, extent, and scope, but also for their enduring importance-are major documents in the Baptist story.
Fuller’s writings exist in three states: those published during his lifetime, those issued posthumously, and those still in manuscript (these are mostly letters, a few sermons and a diary). Up until now, scholars and general readers have had to rely generally on a nineteenth-century, three-volume American edition that has been reprinted in the late 1980s: The Complete Works of the Rev. Andrew Fuller. The inadequacies of this edition include its incompleteness, the small font size of the text, and the lack of both critical annotation and adequate indices.
What is also missing is the massive correspondence of Fuller, which reveals the enormous influence that Fuller had in both Baptist circles and other realms of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Evangelicalism. By making the entire corpus of Fuller’s works available, a proper appreciation of Fuller’s impact and achievement can be done.