Student cracks theologian’s baffling religious code

Jonny Woods has worked out how to read shorthand notes left by leading Baptist theologian Andrew Fuller. Image copyright
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Fuller’s early sermons have only survived in shorthand form

While he wrote a number of influential works before his death in 1815, his early sermons and other documents have survived only as shorthand notes. They remained inaccessible until Dr Steve Holmes, head of the School of Divinity at St Andrews University found one headed in longhand “Confessions of Faith, Oct. 7 1783”.

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