John Newton : from disgrace to amazing grace /
Jonathan Aitken.
- 400 páginas ; 24 centímetros
Incluye bibliografía.
A spiritual upbringing. -First steps in love and seafaring. -Press-ganged. -Flogged and degraded. -Exchanged. -Enslaved in Africa. -Rescued by the Greyhound. -Troublemaker and blasphemer. -In the Shadow of death. -False dawns, more storms, and a safe landing. -Londonderry, love, and a liverpool shipowner. -Adventures on the brownlow. -Struggles of books, body, and soul. -Marriage to polly. -Captain of the duke of argyle. -First voyage of the African. -The end of a seafaring career. -Unemployment, inspiration, and prayer. -Methodism and materialism. -Life in liverpool. -The call to ordination. -The first rejection. -In suspense. -An authentic narrative. -Ordained at last. -First impressions of olney. -Parish ministry. -Pressure to move: praying with polly. -Prayer and church history. -Friendship with cowper. -Creativity and crisis. -"Amazing grace". -Winning friends and influencing people. -Meddling in politics?. -Family, friends, and apologia. -The eclectic society and the Messiah. -Mentor to William wilberforce. -Abolitionist campaigner. -Death of polly. -Declining years and continuing influence. -A great sinner and a Great Savior.