Andrew Fuller and the Evangelical Renewal of Pastoral Theology

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 expre...