Education
PhD (2023), The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY.
Dissertation: ‘The Steady Obedience of His Church’: The Ecclesial Spirituality of Joseph Kinghorn and the Communion Controversy, 1814–1827.
MA (2014), Toronto Baptist Seminary.
BA (2013), Toronto Baptist Seminary.
Courses
- China: From Ancient Empire to Economic Superpower (HIS-354)
About
Baiyu Andrew Song is a senior fellow at the Andrew Fuller Centre for Baptist Studies. He is also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, an associate fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the regional president of the Evangelical Theological Society Ontario and Quebec, and a co-chair of the British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century working group (under the auspices of the American Society of Church History). He is also the associate editor of the Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies. Besides Redeemer, he serves as an adjunct professor at Wycliffe College in Toronto and at Carey Theological College in Vancouver, BC.
Research Interests
- Global Christianity
- Ecclesiastical History
- History of the long eighteenth century
Research Publications
Song, Baiyu Andrew. Joseph Kinghorn and English Baptist Communion Controversies. Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World series (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Chinese Student Experience at Central Baptist Seminary, Toronto.” Being Baptist in Canada: Past, Present, and Future––Papers from the First Canadian Baptist Symposium, edited by Taylor Murray and Paul Wilson (Pickwick, 2027).
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Joseph Kinghorn (1766–1832) and German Scholarship: Baptist Education at Its Turning Point.” Baptist and Education: Papers for the Tenth International Conference on Baptist Studies. Edited by Melody Maxwell and T. Laine Scales (Mercer University Press, 2027).
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “‘Dr Watts’s excellent evangelical sentiments’: Reception of Isaac Watts (1674–1748) among English Particular Baptists in the Long Eighteenth Century.” In “Songs Before Unknown”: The Legacy of Isaac Watts’ Hymnody, edited by Daniel Johnson and Martin Clarke (Routledge, 2026/7).
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “‘Can a Chinaman become a Christian?’: World Christianity and Evangelicalism––A historian’s reflection.” “A deep spiritual well”: Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals & Their Legacy: Essays in Honour of Grant A. Gordon, edited by Michael A.G. Haykin (Heritage Seminary Press, 2025).
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Marcus Cheng (1884–1963) and Chinese Pneumatology.” McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry 25 (2023–2025): 135–159.
Song, Baiyu Andrew, and Daniel Reed, eds. “A Newly Discovered Letter by Joseph Kinghorn (1766–1832).” Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies no. 10 (2025): 68–77.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “A Newly Discovered Letter from John Ryland, Jr. (1753–1825) to Christopher Anderson (1782–1852).” Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies no. 8 (2024): 75–86.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Huang Pin-san (1823–1890) and Early Baptists in Shanghai.” Bulletin of Canadian Baptist Historical Society 3 (2024): 19–55.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Isaiah Birt (1758–1837) and the Baptismal Controversies in Devonshire.” Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture 27 (2023): 79–98.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “‘I have a much larger room to sleep in, and good closets for my books’: A Study of Joseph Kinghorn’s Library Catalogue.” Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies no. 6 (2023): 57–71.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “‘Dr. M will go down’: Joseph Kinghorn (1766–1832) on Two Baptist Controversies.” Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies no. 6 (2023): 79–87.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “The Sung Spirituality of St. Mary’s Baptist Chapel, Norwich, under Joseph Kinghorn’s Pastorate (1789–1832)” In Life is Worship: A Festschrift in Honour of Douglas A. Thomson on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, edited by David Barker and Michael A. G. Haykin, 197–227 (Peterborough, ON: Heritage Seminary Press, 2023).
The Lexham Dictionary of Church History. Edited by Michael A. G. Haykin and Baiyu Andrew Song. Digitally published (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, forthcoming [under contract]), 2022-2024.
Apologetic Works 3. The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined and Compared, as to their Moral Tendency. Edited by Thomas J. Nettles, Michael A. G. Haykin, Baiyu Andrew Song. The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller 7 (Berlin; Boston, MA: Walter de Gruyter). 2021.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Jesus Christ in the ‘Chinese Enlightenment’: A Case Study of Chang Wan-Kai’s (1871–1931) Christology.” Midwestern Journal of Theology 20.1 (2021): 52–71.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “An Uncatalogued Baptism-Sermon by Joseph Kinghorn (1766–1832).” Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies no 2 (February 2021): 71–83.
Kinghorn, Joseph. Public Worship Considered and Enforced. Edited and introduced by Baiyu Andrew Song. (Peterborough, ON: Hesed and Emet, 2020).
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “David Kinghorn (1737–1822).” In The British Particular Baptists: Volume V More Biographical Essays of Notable British Particular Baptists, edited by Michael A.G. Haykin and Terry Wolever, 5:153–174 (Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press). 2020.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “‘When They Know Only or Chiefly Its Language, Not Its Spirit’: Joseph Kinghorn (1766–1832) and Socinianism.” Puritan Reformed Journal 12.2 (2020): 81–99.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Joseph Kinghorn’s (1766–1832) Educational Vision.” Pacific Journal of Theological Research 15, no. 1 (May 2020): 23–35.
Song, Baiyu Andrew, and Michael A. G. Haykin, and Paul Andrew Grey Gillespie. “Behold, the Lamb of God”: A Centennial History of Forward Baptist Church, Toronto, 1919–2019 (Forward Baptist Church, Toronto). 2019.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Jia Yuming (1880–1964)––A Chinese Keswick: A Theological Analysis of Christ-Human Theology with Jia’s Total Salvation.” Journal of Global Christianity 4, no. 1 (2018): 68–83.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “Christ Against Culture? A Re-Evaluation of Wang Mingdao’s Popular Theology.” Journal of Global Christianity 3, no. 1 (2017): 47–62.
Song, Baiyu Andrew, and Michael A. G. Haykin. “To Yield My Will, My Hopes, My Goal, My All”: A Portrait of the Life and Ministry of W. Hal MacBain (Guelph, ON: The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada), 2016.
Song, Baiyu Andrew, and Michael A. G. Haykin. Finding Him Faithful: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Westney Heights Baptist Church 1990–2015 (Ajax, ON: Westney Heights Baptist Church), 2015.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. “‘To the Joy of the Church, and the Honour of Christ’: A Case Study of Personal Evangelism in Early Chinese Mission.” Journal of Global Christianity 1, no. 2 (August 2015): 35–55.
Song, Baiyu Andrew. Training Labors into His Harvest: A Historical Study of William Milne’s Mentorship of Liang Fa (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock), 2015.