John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

Jonathan Aitken. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2007. 400 pp. (Hardcover).

This inspiring and fresh biographical account is about one best known for writing the world-renowned hymn “Amazing Grace.” Skilled author Jonathan Aitken has enriched this famous life story with new research found in recently published papers. As Dean Timothy George of Beeson Divinity School has so well said: “John Newton not only wrote one of the greatest hymns of all time, he lived one of the greatest stories of salvation.” Newton’s life story comes alive in Aitken’s book, and it will warm your heart as you read this well-written biographical story.