Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...

The history in a hymn -- Hymns and hymnbooks as cultural icons -- Understanding the classical era of American Protestantism through hymns The history in a hymn. "Amazing grace" : the history of a hymn ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...