BOOKS BY ERIC METAXAS
Posted on 10/22/2015 8:21:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Before evangelical leader Chuck Colson fell ill at a conference, crumbling at the podium and later dying at the hospital, it was Eric Metaxas who introduced him.
At the time, Metaxas seemed primed and ready to become the next Colson — a key leader in the evangelical movement, known for his prison ministry, but also credited with keeping Christians engaged in politics and culture through books, radio and other outlets.
Metaxas took over some of Colson’s roles, including co-host of BreakPoint, a radio show Metaxas wrote for in the late ‘90s. He took Colson’s place on the board of the Manhattan Declaration, a movement Colson helped found to focus Christians’ attention on life, marriage and religious freedom issues.
And like Colson, Metaxas took to the Christian conference circuit, speaking on the issues that were near and dear to Colson’s interests.
But comparisons to Colson only go so far, Metaxas said.
“I’ll always want to follow in Chuck’s footsteps, but I’m a humorist, I write poetry and children’s books,” said Metaxas, whose most recent book, “Seven Men” came out this spring. “Chuck was a lawyer.”
But like Colson, the Nixon adviser who converted to Christianity after serving time for his involvement in the Watergate scandal, Metaxas rose to evangelical fame later in life.
For years, Metaxas struggled financially as a writer living in Manhattan, contributing to VeggieTales, writing children’s books, apologetics books and then biographies.
But then Metaxas’ 2011 600-page biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, took off, selling more than 600,000 copies.
The book led to an hourlong meeting with former President George W. Bush, who gave him high praise for the book.
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***Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren’t known to fly off the shelves,” Metaxas said. “That Thomas Nelson was willing to publish it as I had written it was almost miraculous, if not actually miraculous.”***
My copy is dog-eared.
RE: My copy is dog-eared.
I assume that you REALLY liked the book :)
Mine too.
Wonderful book! I often hear him on BreakPoint, on the radio. Wish he’d put thoseSocrates in the City events on the radio too, so folks in the hinterlands could hear—those sound really interesting.
Thank you so much !
He’s also written a book about another Christian hero, William Wilberforce.
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