John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce

by Hindmarsh, D. Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780802847416
• ISBN10: 0802847412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

This acclaimed volume explores the life and religious thought of John Newton (1725-1807), the famous converted slave-trader who wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace". Drawing on extensive, untapped archival and antiquarian sources, D. Bruce Hindmarsh's scholarly yet thoroughly enjoyable book, called "a milestone in evangelical historiography", offers the best available study of Newton's life and the English evangelical tradition.

Author Biography

D. Bruce Hindmarsh is the James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia

Table of Contents

Figures	xii
Abbreviations	xiii
Chronology of Newton's Life	xvi
Introduction: John Newton and the Evangelical Tradition	1	(12)
`I know of no case more extraordinary than my own': The Authentic Narrative (1764)	13	(36)
`My own experiences are as good as mathematical demonstrations to me': Newton's Theological Formation, 1725-1756	49	(34)
`I cannot, I will not give up the desire': Newton's Ordination Crisis, 1757-1764	83	(36)
`We need not be more consistent than the inspired writers': The Defining of Newton's Evangelical Theology	119	(50)
`There is, without doubt, an awakening and reviving work in and about Olney': The Olney Curacy, 1764-1780	169	(52)
`O for the lively exercise of grace in my own soul': Newton and the Spiritual Life	221	(36)
`For my own part I like the evangelic strain best': The Hymnody of John Newton	257	(32)
`My connections have enlarged--my little name is spread': Newton in London, 1780-c.1790	289	(36)
Conclusion	325	(7)
Appendix: John Newton's Recorded Reading, 1725-56	332	(5)
Bibliography	337	(22)
Index	359