Amazing Grace in John Newton: Slave-ship Captain, Hymnwriter, and AbolitionistMercer University Press, 2001 - 270 halaman 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 anti-slavery 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 pastoring 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 on 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 accounts Newton gives in his ship journal, diary, letters, and sermons for this most readable scholarly narrative. |
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... fear and bondage . His sternness , together with the severity of my schoolmaster , broke and overawed my spirit , and almost made me a dolt . 4 Captain Newton remarried soon after Elizabeth died ; his young wife neglected her stepson as ...
... fear and bondage . His sternness , together with the severity of my schoolmaster , broke and overawed my spirit , and almost made me a dolt . 4 Captain Newton remarried soon after Elizabeth died ; his young wife neglected her stepson as ...
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... fear of speaking an idle word . . . . In short , I became an ascetic , and endeavoured , so far as my situation would permit , to renounce society , that I might avoid temptation . I continued in this serious mood for more than two ...
... fear of speaking an idle word . . . . In short , I became an ascetic , and endeavoured , so far as my situation would permit , to renounce society , that I might avoid temptation . I continued in this serious mood for more than two ...
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... fears were at an end , and with joy and gratitude I ap- proached my kind deliverer to receive the ring again ; but he refused to return it , and spoke to this effect : " If you should be entrusted with this ring again , you would very ...
... fears were at an end , and with joy and gratitude I ap- proached my kind deliverer to receive the ring again ; but he refused to return it , and spoke to this effect : " If you should be entrusted with this ring again , you would very ...
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... fear of discovery.29 John identified with the Palestinian prodigal in a far country who " would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate . " This was his first experience of deprivation of survival needs , for he had been ...
... fear of discovery.29 John identified with the Palestinian prodigal in a far country who " would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate . " This was his first experience of deprivation of survival needs , for he had been ...
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... fear and tremble . " 4 9 Also , he said , " I dreaded death now , and my heart foreboded the worst . . . . I thought if the Christian religion were true , I could not be forgiven ; and was therefore expecting , and almost at times ...
... fear and tremble . " 4 9 Also , he said , " I dreaded death now , and my heart foreboded the worst . . . . I thought if the Christian religion were true , I could not be forgiven ; and was therefore expecting , and almost at times ...
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To Charleston as First Mate | 29 |
Voyages as Captain | 39 |
Now Am Found | 65 |
The Olney Parson | 86 |
Now I See | 159 |
Encounters with Abolitionists | 173 |
Working with Wilberforce | 178 |
As Long as Life Endures | 205 |
The Londoners Wider Impact | 211 |
The Last Years | 224 |
Afterword | 243 |
A Bibliography | 259 |
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Halaman 149 - SOMETIMES a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises With healing in his wings; When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again, A season of clear shining, To cheer it after rain.
Halaman 131 - GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God ! He whose word cannot be broken, Formed thee for his own abode : On the Rock of Ages founded — What can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, Thou may'st smile at all thy foes.
Halaman 134 - Till then, I would Thy love proclaim With every fleeting breath ; And may the music of Thy Name Refresh my soul in death ! Amen-.
Halaman 19 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Halaman 212 - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, " I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas ; and I of Christ.
Halaman 148 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...
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