'Amazing Grace': Celebrating the 245th Anniversary of the Powerful Christian Hymn's Publication
In 1779, the Anglican minister John Newton and the poet William Cowper published “Olney Hymns.” This now-legendary collection featured one entry that eventually emerged as perhaps the most beloved Christian hymn of all time.
Newton, curate-in-charge at St Peter & St. Paul Church in Olney, England, and a former slave trader who operated along the coast of Africa in the late 1740s and early 1750s, penned 281 of the collection’s 348 total hymns, including Hymn 41, to which he affixed the title, “Faith’s Review and Expectation.”
More than two centuries and several iterations later, that hymn goes by a different title: “Amazing Grace.”
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