Author: John NEWTON (Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Etc
Author: John NEWTON (Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
The Works of the Rev. John Newton. ... To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Etc. by ... R. Cecil
Author: John NEWTON (Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...
Author: John NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth, and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, Lombard Street
Author: Richard CecilPublisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Select Works of the Rev. John Newton
Author: John NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton ...
Author: Richard CecilAmazing 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.
English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Madeleine Forrell MarshallPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194253
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it. The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was appropriate. Charles Wesley's enthusiasm proceeded from and served the spirit of the revival. John Newton's prophetic vision particularly suited the impoverished community at Olney. William Cowper's masterful handling of formal conventions and his idiosyncratic personal hymns reflect his poetic, rather than clerical, vocation. Despite such temporal variations, the great poetry by each man displays themes of general Christian relevance, suggesting common experience, showing normative features of the genre, and bearing a complex and intriguing relationship to secular literature.
A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Company
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Author: Richard Cecil