有關約翰紐頓（John Newton）

Question

我最近在看他的生平事蹟
當中很多都寫說
他是販賣黑奴　後來發生一些事情　讓他反而變成奴隸　所以他爸爸就把他從非洲救出來
當中到底是發生什麼事情
讓他從一個賣奴的人　變成奴隸呢？
我想知道當中的細節！

網路上都沒有很詳細的說明！

你這些我都知道ㄚ
我是希望在過程當中有沒有比較「具體」的事情
他是做了啥米事情　所以被賣之類的
因為我們要演戲
希望可以不要自己亂編

Answer 1

約翰牛頓（John Newton 1725-1807）生於英國倫敦。父親是西班牙人，從事航業；母親是英國人，是一位虔誠的基督徒，她因渴望兒子能受良好教育，並為牧師，時常為此祈禱。約翰自幼隨母熟誦經文及聖詩。不幸在他七歲時，母親病逝，而她的禱告在三十年後才蒙應允。母親去世後，約翰上了兩年學，因寄宿生 活嚴謹而輟。11歲時隨父親上船過著航海的生活，繼而被徵兵，逃役又被捕回。退伍後，在販賣奴隸船上工作，經常在非洲一帶販賣黑奴。他足跡遍四海，道德日益墮落，不久染上了水手們放蕩的生活習慣，吃喝嫖賭，奸詐欺騙，無所不為。日後因鬧事，反在非洲作奴隸之僕，過了幾年非人的生活，幸而他在英倫的父親聽到這消息後，就差人前往營救。1748年春，從非洲返英的途中，遇到強烈風暴，船險沉沒，他在怒濤中，向神呼求：「神啊！求你救我安抵港口，我將永作你的奴僕。」最後他平安脫險。從此以後，他把自己獻給上帝。在漫長的航程中，他讀到肯培斯（Thomas Kempis）的「遵主聖範」（The Imitation of Christ），心受感動，矢志悔改。
故約翰紐頓年少時期叛逆、放蕩、自甘墮落、胡亂交友，因此，落到被販賣到奴隸船上為奴的地步。

Answer 2

John Newton (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was an Anglican clergyman who had, at one time, been a slaveship master. He is best known as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace.



Early life
John Newton was born in Wapping, London, the son of John Newton, a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth Newton (née Seatclife). His mother brought him up as a Nonconformist Christian. She died of tuberculosis when he was 6. [1] Newton spent 2 years at boarding school, at the age of 11 he went to sea with his father and sailed with him on a total of six voyages until the elder Newton retired in 1742.

In 1743 Newton's father had planned for him to take up a position at a sugar plantation in Jamaica but on his way he was pressed into naval service, and became a midshipman aboard the HMS Harwich. Having attempted to desert, Newton was recaptured, put in irons, and reduced to the rank of a common seaman. At his own request, Newton was exchanged into service on a slave ship bound for West Africa which eventually took him to the coast of Sierra Leone. He then became the servant of a slave trader and was brutally abused suffering starvation, illness and exposure. It was this period that Newton later remembered as the time he was "once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa." Early in 1748 he was rescued by a sea captain who had been asked by Newton’s father to look out for him on the captain's next voyage.



約翰·牛頓 (1725年7月24日–1807年12月21日)，英國牧師。之前從事大西洋上的販奴生意，在皈依基督教並放棄其生意之後，寫出了著名的讚美詩《Amazing Grace》。

牛頓出生於倫敦，是一個從事地中海貿易的船長的兒子。牛頓曾和他父親共同出海6次直到1742年他父親去世。在1743年他應征進入海軍，在皇家海軍「哈維奇」號上作為海軍少尉替補軍官服役。

2007-06-10 17:06:47 補充：
http://www.johnnewton.org/

http://b5.ctestimony.org/2004/20041205.htm

http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps028.shtml

http://www.joyfulheart.com/misc/newton.htm

http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/htmlpages/newton1.html

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton