{"product_id":"john-newton","title":"John Newton","description":"\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 Using a wealth of unpublished material, Jonathan Aitken charts Newton''s journey through slave-trading, best-selling authorship, ordination, church leadership, abolitionist campaigning and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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308181332350,"sku":"NW9781399412841","price":13.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781399412841.jpg?v=1778578213","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/john-newton","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}