by Michael A. G. Haykin (Editor)

This collection of essays celebrate the academic achievements of historian Grant Gordon, whose research on key eighteenth-century Evangelicals such as John Newton, John Ryland, Jr., David George, George Whitefield, and John Wesley has opened up fresh avenues for understanding these men and their times. The essays especially focus on John Ryland and his family and the English Particular Baptist community to which he belonged. A number of essays, dealing with slavery, the impact of the American Revolution on British North America, pastoral vision, and race touch on key issues of concern to the Rylands and to John Newton.