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“Perhaps here we might find a power for reconciliation greater than ourselves.”
Regent College is proud to celebrate the release of Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song (W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson) by Bruce Hindmarsh, James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity at Regent College. The launch will be accompanied by an on-campus book signing on April 13, Co-authored by New York Times bestselling author Craig Borlase, Amazing Grace is a biography that reads like a novel. It reveals Newton’s tale of sin and salvation as a slave trader before a spiritual transformation led him to speak out against slavery.
The book's release has been timed to mark this year's th anniversary of the first public singing of “Amazing Grace.”
From foolish decisions to shameful actions, Newton’s life was full of moments that led him to the brink of utter despair. It is
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Amazing Grace: The slave trade links of the ‘most beloved’ song in the US
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Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain.
There is no shortage of versions of Amazing Grace. The Library of Congress has catalogued 3, recordings up to the year alone. One writer has estimated that it is performed 10 million times around the world every year. But the most famous rendition in recent years is the one that President Barack Obama gave on 26 June in in Charleston, South Carolina at the televised begravning of Clementa Pinckney, one of nine black church-goers gunned down by a white supremacist nine days earlier. Joan Baez recorded a song about the massaker called The President Sang fantastisk Grace. "It's electrifying," says James Walvin, author of the new book Amazing Grace: The Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn. "It&#
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Amazing Grace
Christian hymn by John Newton
For other uses, see fantastisk Grace (disambiguation).
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in , written in by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (–). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.[1][2][3]
Newton wrote the words from personal experience; he grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion bygd others' reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed into service with the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In , a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland, so severely that he called out to God for mercy. While this moment mark