Amazing Grace at 250

Faith's Review and Expectation Foreword Introduction Part One: Global Heritage 1. The Enduring Textual Power of Amazing Grace": John Newton's Hymn as Exemplary Devotional Verse 2. What is so Amazing about Grace? "Amazing Grace" in the Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Theology and Hymnody 3. Awaiting Grace: A Hymn Comes Home 4. From "Amazing Grace" to "Preciosa Graca": Transnational Echoes of a Protestant Hymn 5. "Amazing Grace" and New Britain Beyond the Anglophone World: German Paraphrases and New Texts, 1971-2023 6. Recontextualizing "Amazing Grace" in Hong Kong: Its Social and Pastoral Meanings Part Two: Music and Musicians 7. "How Sweet the Sound": "Amazing Grace" and the Eventual Ubiquity of New Britain 8. "Amazing Grace," Aretha and the Transcendent 9. Retuning "Amazing Grace" 10. Amazing Affordances: Revealing the idiomaticity of the harmonica through a classic hymn Part Three: Contested Legacies 11. "Now I See:" Discussing blindness in hymnody 12. "Amazing Grace" for Lawyers: lessons from the first 250 years 13. Through many dangers: "Amazing Grace" as an act of congregational care during crisis 14. "Amazing Grace" in Virtual Space: Two Pandemic Performances on YouTube 15. The Making of Forever? A Poet's Practice-Steeped Reflection