John Fulton (priest)

John Fulton (April 2, 1834 – April 24, 1907) was a Scottish-American Episcopal priest, church historian, journalist, and canonist who was one of the founding editors of The Living Church magazine with Samuel Smith Harris from 1878 to 1879. He was born in Aberdeen and died in Philadelphia. After ordination in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana in 1857, he served as a priest in several parishes before becoming Professor of Canon Law at the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1892. He was also editor of the Philadelphia Church Standard from 1892 to 1907.

Fulton received an honorary doctor of divinity from the University of Georgia, an honorary doctor of canon law degree (D.C.L.) from the University of the South and an honorary doctorate of laws (LL.D.) from the University of Alabama. He was an opponent of the Revised Version of the Bible.

Fulton is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Works

• Address to the Parishioners of Christ Church, Mobile (Mobile: Henry Farrow & Co., 1869)
• with Philip Schaff, Index Canonum, Containing the Canons Called Apostolical, the Canons of the Undisputed General Councils, and the Canons of the Provincial Councils of Ancyra, Neocaesarea, Gangra, Antioch and Laodicea, in Greek and English (New York: Pott, Young & Co., 1872)
• Letter to a Presbyter of Illinois on the Reconciliation of Schismatics and on the Validity of Ordinations by a Deposed Bishop (1874)
• The Cathedral System (1875)
• The Chalcedonian Decree: or, Historical Christianity, Misrepresented by Modern Theology, Confirmed by Modern Science, and Untouched by Modern Criticism (Faribault, 1882)
• The Laws of Marriage: Containing the Hebrew Law, the Roman Law, the Law of the New Testament, and the Canon Law of the Universal Church concerning the Impediments of Marriage and the Dissolution of the Marriage Bond (New York: E. & J.B. Young, 1883)
• (editor) Christian Unity and Christian Faith: A Series of Discourses Delivered in St. George's Church, St. Louis, by Ministers of Various Churches (New York, A.D.F. Randolph & Co., 1885)
• Why the Revised Version Has Failed (1887)
• The Beautiful Land: Palestine Historical Geographical and Pictorial (New York, 1891)
• The Bull of Leo XIII on Anglican Ordinations Critically Examined (1896)
• Ten Epochs of Church History (New York: Scribner, 1896)
  • volume one
  • volume two
  • volume three
  • volume four
  • volume five
  • volume six
  • volume seven
  • volume eight
  • volume nine
  • volume ten
• Marriage and Divorce, together with Three Papers on the Provincial System (Philadelphia: Church Standard, 1898)
• Palestine: The Holy Land as It Was and As It Is (New York, 1900)

References

• The American Church Clergy and Parish Directory for 1905 (Uniontown, Pennsylvania: Frederic E. J. Lloyd, 1905)
• Moshe Davis, Americana and the Holy Land (Greenwood Publishing)
• Obituary, New-York Observer, May 9, 1907, volume 85, p. 614.
• Obituary, The Caledonian, 1907, p. 141.
• Mammana, Richard J. (2015). "A Brief History of the Living Church Foundation". The Living Church. The Living Church Foundation. Retrieved May 28, 2022.

External links

• Grave
• The Living Church

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