Author: John NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Select Works of the Rev. John Newton
Author: John NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c
Author: John NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...
Author: John NewtonThe Works of the Rev. John Newton ...
Author: John NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 919
Book Description
Amazing Grace in John Newton
Author: William E. PhippsPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In "Amazing Grace," the best-loved of all hymns, John Newton's allusions to the drama of his life tell the story of a youth who was a virtual slave in Sierra Leone before ironically becoming a slave trader himself. Liverpool, his home port, was the center of the most colossal, lucrative, and inhumane slave trade the world has ever known. A gradual spiritual awakening transformed Newton into an ardent evangelist and antislavery activist.Influenced by Methodists George Whitefield and John Wesley, Newton became prominent among those favoring a Methodist-style revival in the Church of England. This movement stressed personal conversion, simple worship, emotional enthusiasm, and social justice. While pastor of a poor flock in Olney, he and poet William Cowper produced a hymnal containing such perennial favorites as "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" and "God Moves in a Mysterious Way." Later, while serving a church in London, Newton raised British consciousness on the immorality of the slave trade. The account he gave to Parliament of the atrocities he had witnessed helped William Wilberforce obtain legislation to abolish the slave trade in England.Newton's life story convinced many who are "found" after being "lost" to sing Gospel hymns as they lobbied for civil rights legislation. His close involvement with both capitalism and evangelicalism, the main economic and religious forces of his era, provide a fascinating case study of the relationship of Christians to their social environment. In an afterword on Newtonian Christianity, Phipps explains Newton's critique of Karl Marx's thesis that religious ideals are always the effect of what produces the most profit. Phipps relies on accountsNewton gives in his ship journal, diary, letters, and sermons for this most readable scholarly narrative.
The Clapham Sect
Author: Stephen TomkinsPublisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 0745957390
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of Clapham in south London. Its members included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, James Stephen, Zachary Macaulay and others. Stephen Tomkins tells the fascinating story of the group as one of a web of family relations - father and son, aunt and nephew, husband and wife, daughter and father, cousins, etc. Within the story of the people are the stories of their famous campaigns against the slave trade, then slavery, the Sierra Leone colony, Indian mission, home mission, charity and politics. The book ends by assessing the long term influence of the Clapham Sect on Victorian Britain and the Empire.
Catalogue of the Edinburgh Select Subscription Library
Author: Hugh SMITH (Secretary of the Edinburgh Select Subscription Library.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Poor Man's Morning Portion: Being a Selection of a Verse of Scripture with Short Observations, for Every Day in the Year: Intended for the Use of the Poor in Spirit "Who are Rich in Faith and Heirs of the Kingdom"
Author: Robert HawkerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368874152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
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