An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect.(Book Review)

Church History | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect. By Milton M. Klein. New Orleans, La.: University Press of the South, 2004. xv + 160 pp. $49.95 paper.

Milton Klein's slim volume, An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect, is the first modern biographical work devoted to John Thornton. This simple fact becomes profoundly surprising as one discovers, by the fruits of Klein's labor in the archives, that Thornton was the most generous and influential philanthropist of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement, with a hand in such a breadth of ...

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