Reginald H. Fuller

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The Reverend

Reginald H. Fuller
Born
Reginald Horace Fuller

(1915-03-24)March 24, 1915
Horsham, England
DiedApril 4, 2007(2007-04-04) (aged 92)
Richmond, Virginia, US
Nationality
  • English
  • American (after 1995)
Spouse
Ilse Barda Fuller
​
(m. 1942)​
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (
Anglican)
Church
Ordained
  • 1940 (deacon)
  • 1941 (priest)
Academic background
Queen's College, Birmingham
  • St David's College
  • Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
  • Union Theological Seminary
  • Virginia Theological Seminary

    • Reginald Horace Fuller (1915–2007) was an English-American

    neo-orthodox.[3]

    Life events

    Reginald Fuller was born on 24 March 1915. An obituary from the

    Horsham in West Sussex, where he attended Collyer’s School
    . He was a choir boy in his local parish church between the ages of nine and fifteen."

    He later attended

    Queen's College, Birmingham (1939–1940), and was ordained a deacon in 1940 and a priest in 1941. He met Ilse Barda in 1940 at a wedding. They married in 1942. Fuller was a curate in England from 1940 to 1950 and lectured in theology at the Queen's College, 1946–1950. He was professor of theology and Hebrew at St David's College
    , Lampeter, Wales (1950–1955). He also assisted in raising three daughters.

    Fuller became a US resident in 1955. He was professor of New Testament at

    Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Tx. (1986), Nashotah House, Wis. (1986, ..., 2004, 7 terms), St. Mark's College of Ministry, Canberra, Australia (1987), and Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC (1990).[5]

    Fuller was a member of World Council of Churches study commissions (1957–1961), Episcopal–Lutheran Conversations (1969–1972, 1977–1980), Anglican–Lutheran Conversations (1970–1972), and Lutheran–Catholic (US) Dialogue Task Force (1971–1973), and the New Revised Standard Version Bible Translation Committee (1981–2006).

    Fuller authored some twenty books and over 100 journal articles or book chapters. He also translated such works as

    Bornkamm
    's The New Testament: A Guide to Its Writings (1973).

    Fuller died on 4 April 2007 in Richmond, Virginia, one day before his 92nd birthday.

    Honours

    Fuller was a fellow of the American Association of Theological Schools, 1961–1962. He was president of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, 1983-84 He was recipient of the first annual Ecumenism Award from the Washington Theological Consortium (2001) and of honorary degrees from among others General Theological Seminary (STD), Philadelphia Divinity School (STD), and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (DD).

    Fuller became

    Professor Emeritus
    at Virginia Theological Seminary in 1985.

    In 1990, his former students presented a festschrift in his honour.[6]

    Fuller became an American citizen in 1995. He was an honorary canon of Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, Vermont, and Priest in Residence at Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill, Richmond, Va.

    Fuller was survived by his wife Ilse Barda Fuller, his daughters, Caroline Sloat and Sally Fuller, four grandchildren; and five great-grandsons.[3][7]

    The New York Times obituary recorded Fuller's belief that the Bible must be proclaimed every Sunday. It closed by noting that, "On March 25, the day he suffered the fall that eventually led to his death, he taught a Sunday school class on the Resurrection."[3]

    The Foundations of New Testament Christology

    Reginald H. Fuller's

    critical methods
    and tests applied to documents from the gentile mission. Such methods and tests distinguish the knowledge of early writers about Jesus, their own theology, and other traditions to which they responded (pp. 17–20). The book makes explicit which elements of sources are accepted as going back to each stratum of the early church. It accepts assignment of a tradition to a specific stratum with:

    • elaboration in case of wide acceptance
    • a summary of the argument in case wide acceptance is lacking
    • elaboration in case a common assignment is rejected or a new assignment is proposed (p. 21).

    With the emergence of a post-Bultmann school of "historical-traditio criticism", the concern of the book is "to establish a continuity of the historical Jesus and the christological kerygma of the post-resurrection church." The real continuity, Fuller felt, "was obscured, if not actually denied, by Bultmann's own work", to the disadvantage of the church's proclamation (p. 11).

    The book concludes that the christological foundations of the early church (as recoverable from the New Testament and formulations of

    church fathers
    ) "are also the foundations of Christology today" (p. 257).

    Selected publications

    Books

    Chapters or entries

    Journal articles

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^
      JSTOR 3264254
      .
    2. ^ Raymond E. Brown, 1990. "Christology" and "The Resurrection of Jesus," in Raymond E. Brown et al., ed., The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Prentice Hall, pp. 1354–1359, 1373–1377.
    3. ^ a b c Douglas Martin, 2007. "Reginald H. Fuller, 92, New Testament Scholar, Dies," The New York Times, April 14.
    4. ^ University of Wales Trinity Saint David ([2007] 2022). "Professor Reginald Horace Fuller". Retrieved 18 October 2022.
    5. ^ Who's Who in America 2006, p. 1596.
    6. ISBN 0-88028-104-9
    7. ^ Ellen Robertson, 2007. "The Rev. R.H. Fuller, 92, Dies After a Fall", Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 6.
    8. ISBN 0-684-15532-X
      .
    9. ^
      S2CID 170670501
      .
    10. ^ Hanson, Richard Patrick Crosland; Fuller, Reginald Horace (1960). "The Church of Rome: A Dissuasive (snippet view)". Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    11. ^ "The Mission and Achievement of Jesus - Table of Contents". 1954. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    12. ^ "The Book of the Acts of God: Christian Scholarship Interprets the Bible (full text)". 1957. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    13. JSTOR 1460476
      .
    14. JSTOR 3263285
      .
    15. ^ "The Formation of the Resurrection Narratives review from Theology Today". 1971. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    16. ^ "Who Is This Christ?: Gospel Christology and Contemporary Faith - Summary from Theology Today". 1983. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    17. ^ "Christ and Christianity - Table of contents from Amazon". Amazon UK. 1994. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    18. ^ "Preaching the Lectionary - Description". 1974. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    19. ^ "Preaching the Lectionary - Description" (2nd ed.). 1984. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
    20. ^ "Preaching the Lectionary - Description". 2006. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
    21. ISBN 9781451411188
      . Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    22. ^ "Review of Rediscovering the Teaching of Jesus". 1967. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
    23. ^ "The Conception/Birth of Jesus as a Christological Moment - Abstract". 1978. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

    References

    • Arland J. Hultgren and Barbara Hall, ed., 1990. Christ and His Communities: Essays in Honor of Reginald H. Fuller, Forward Movement.
      CV
      , publications list through 1989, & an intimate introductory essay by Ilse Fuller on R.H.F.: the man, churchman, & scholar.)
    • Who's Who in America 2006, p. 1596.
    • Raymond E. Brown, 1990. "Christology" and "The Resurrection of Jesus," in Raymond E. Brown et al., ed., The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Prentice Hall, pp. 1354–1359, 1373–1377.
    • The Rev. Steve Schlossberg, 2007. "To Evensong: Reginald Horace Fuller+, 1915–2007," The Missioner. Michaelmas, pp.7-9 (numbered). A remembrance.
    • Douglas Martin, 2007. "Reginald H. Fuller, 92, New Testament Scholar, Dies," The New York Times, April 14.
    • Ellen Robertson, 2007. "The Rev. R.H. Fuller, 92, Dies After a Fall," Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 6.
    • Mary Rourke, 2007. "Reginald Fuller, 92; Biblical Scholar," Los Angeles Times, April 18.
    • 2007. "Reginald H. Fuller, Former VTS Professor, Dies at 92", Episcopal Life Online, April 18.
    • Jeremy Davies, 2007. "Reginald Fuller - A Theologian of Stature," The Salisbury Journal, May 24.* Jeremy Davies, 2007. "Reginald Fuller - A Theologian of Stature," The Salisbury Journal, May 24.
    • 2007. "Reginald H. Fuller 1915–2007," SBL Forum, April.
    • 2007. "Canon Reginald Horace Fuller," Church Times, May 11.

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