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John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce.(Book Review)

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| March 22, 1999 | Summers, Jerry L. | COPYRIGHT 2009 Baptist History and Heritage Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By D. Bruce Hindmarsh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 366 pp.

Bruce Hindmarsh has written a fresh and comprehensive biography of John Newton. He has shown him to be "a sort of middleman" (a phrase in the pre-publication book title) between partisans of the Evangelical Revival and, as such, a figure revered among them.

At age seven, Newton lost his mother whose faith heritage lay with the Dissenters; his father and stepmother offered nothing comparable, so that as a young adult he embraced Deism and an immoral lifestyle.

He is often remembered only for his conversion, his repentance from involvement in the slave trade as a captain, and for the hymn …

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