Amazing Grace at 250 : Global Heritage and Contested Legacies (Hardcover)

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