10.00-10.45 Registration/Tea and coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome and Introductions
11.00-12.45 Concurrent Paper Session 1
Markus Rathey, ‘What is so amazing about grace? “Amazing Grace” in the contexts of eighteenth-century theology and hymnody’
Marylynn Rouse, ‘Amazing Grace: tracing the overlooked origin of the words of John Newton’s hymn’
Grant Gordon, ‘The Problem of the Missing Parenthesis’
Gillian Warson, ‘“Was blind but now I see”: spiritual blindness in hymnody’
Susan Quindag, ‘In Like Manner of Amazing Grace: A Christian's Journey for Relationship and the Sound of Spirituality’
Fiona Evison, ‘Through Many Dangers: “Amazing Grace” as an act of congregational care during the COVID-19 pandemic’
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Concurrent Paper Session 2
Janet Wootton, ‘Grace Abounding to Amazing Grace’
Scott Connell, ‘The Amazing Grace of Friendship: John Newton and William Cowper’
Gordon Giles, ‘Graciousness in the amazing life and soul of John Newton’
Martin Clarke, ‘Re-tuning “Amazing Grace”: lyrics, music and meaning
Marcell Silva Steuernagel, ‘From “Amazing Grace” to “Preciosa Graça”: Transnational Echoes of a Protestant Hymn’
Walter Kurt Kreyszig, ‘Amazing Grace with Its Tune “New Britain” Beyond the Realm of the English-Speaking World: The Tune “New Britain” as the Basis for German Paraphrases of the Original Text and New Texts, 1976-2019’
15.45-16.15 Tea and coffee
16.15-17.30 Concurrent Paper Session 3
John Coffey, ‘Anthony Benezet, John Newton, and the Liverpool slave trade’
Simon Lee, ‘The Amazing Grace of Redemption’
Gabriel Ademola Oyeniyi, ‘“Amazing grace”: composer’s global vision and the challenge of grassroots hymn singing in Nigeria’
Mikael Bäckman, ‘Amazing affordances: Revealing the idiomaticity of the harmonica through a classic hymn’
10.00-10.45 Registration/Tea and coffee
10.45-12.00 Keynote Lecture 1
Professor D. Bruce Hindmarsh, ‘Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Grace in the Life of John Newton, Then and Now’
12.00-14.00 Lunch (delegates will make their own arrangements; see Visit Olney for suggestions)
14.00-15.15 Keynote Lecture 2
Professor Anthony G. Reddie, ‘Amazing Grace and Cheap Grace: Learning from The Cross and the Lynching Tree’
15.15-15.45 Tea and cofee
15.45-17.00 Roundtable panel
Chair: Dr Martin Clarke
Participants: The Rt Rev’d Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Rev’d Dr Janet Wootton, Prof Simon Lee
17.00-17.30 Lecture-recital
Alexander Douglas (piano), ‘A Sacred Journey: From the Olney Hymns to the Antebellum South’