Christian History

Issue 81

John Newton: Author of “Amazing Grace”

Originally published in 2004

Christian History magazine was published by Christianity Today from 1982 to 2008.

Articles in this Issue

John Newton: Did You Know?

Interesting and unusual facts about John Newton’s life and times

Living History

From Bede’s world to Whitefield’s thumb

Eyewitness

Wesley’s word to a condemned malefactor.

Story Behind

The original Christian bumper sticker

The Amazingly Graced Life of John Newton

His was a tale of two lives, with God at the pivot point.

The American Anthem

How Amazing Grace went from ignored in Britain to acclaimed in America

Forging Britain’s Gospel Era

Newton joined those who laid the groundwork for British evangelicalism—from within the Established Church.

The Captain & the Castaway

The tempest-tossed friendship of John Newton and William Cowper

Pastor to the Nation

Newton responded to thousands of requests for spiritual counsel with letters advising the lowly and the great.

Not a Synod but a Salon

The evangelical underground plotted England’s and the world’s salvation at a London pub.

Turning Point: Luther’s Lost Opportunity

At Marburg, the last hope of a united Protestantism ran aground on the Last Supper.

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