{"product_id":"9781399412841-john-newton","title":"John Newton","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Disgrace to Amazing Grace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Master biographer Jonathan Aitken is in fine form, sympathetic, insightful, scholarly and vivid, and his book, like its subject, must be rated unobtrusively spectacular.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. I. Packer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'.meticulously researched.[Aiken] writes beautifully and accessibly.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a book to inform your mind, warm your heart and inspire your Christian walk.  I cannot recommend it more highly.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvangelical Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Newton's rip-roaring adventures on the high seas to his emergence as a pivotal figure in the abolitionist and evangelical movements, this is a life of amazing achievement as well as of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Newton is best known as the author of the hymn \u003ci\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/i\u003e but this brilliant new biography shows how he led one of the most colourful and influential lives of the 18th century. Using a wealth of unpublished material, Jonathan Aitken charts Newton's journey through slave-trading, best-selling authorship, ordination, church leadership, abolitionist campaigning and the spiritual mentoring of William Wilberforce and William Cowper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40856319098977,"sku":"9781399412841","price":14.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27469432.jpg?v=1721807778","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399412841-john-newton","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}