PERSON: Eric Metaxas
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Self-employed
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Author, Speaker, and Radio Host
Biography
Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and radio host. He is best known for two biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He has also written humor, children’s books, and scripts for VeggieTales. Metaxas is the founder and host of the NYC-based event series, “Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life” and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program, The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas was born in Astoria, Queens in New York City, grew up in Danbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University, where he edited the Yale Record, the nation’s oldest college humor magazine. Metaxas lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. He is Greek on his father’s side and German on his mother’s, while he was raised in a Greek Orthodox environment.
Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy won the 2010 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian Book of the Year. Bonhoeffer is a New York Times best seller, climbing to #1 in the e-book category. It also won the 2011 John C. Pollock Award for Christian Biography awarded by Beeson Divinity School and a 2011 Christopher Award.
Although the book is popular in the United States among evangelical Christians, Bonhoeffer scholars have criticized Metaxas’s book as unhistorical, theologically weak, and philosophically naive. Professor of German History and Bonhoeffer scholar Richard Weikart, for example, credits Metaxas’s “engaging writing style,” but points out his lack of intellectual background to interpret Bonhoeffer properly. The biography has also been criticized by Bonhoeffer scholars Victoria Barnett and Clifford Green. However, several literary critics have praised Metaxas’ work as a “weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer” and a “complete biography of a great theologian” with “liberal use of primary sources.”
Metaxas’s biography of Wilberforce, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, was the companion book to the 2006 film.
He has also written over thirty children’s books, including It’s Time to Sleep, My Love and Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving. He has written scripts for VeggieTales (even the Hamlet parody “Omelet” from “Lyle the Kindly Viking”) and provided the voice of the narrator in “Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen,” based on the Book of Esther.
Other writing has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
His Wall Street Journal essay Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God, based on chapters from his book Miracles, argues that in order for life to exist, the universe must possess conditions compatible with life, and that these conditions are the creation of a Supreme Being. Clinical neurologist Steven Novella, noting that Metaxas is an author, speaker and radio host but not a scientist, has questioned his logic, reasoning and understanding of science.
During an appearance at the International Christian Media Convention in late February 2015, Metaxas announced that he had just that day accepted an offer to host a two-hour, daily radio show to be entitled “The Eric Metaxas Show.” He announced that the show would start broadcasts in April 2015 from the Empire State Building in New York City. The show is syndicated by the Salem Radio Network.
Metaxas is the winner of several awards for his work, including the Becket Fund’s Canterbury Medal in 2011 and the Human Life Review’s Defender of Life Award in 2013. Metaxas is the recipient of three honorary doctorate degrees, one from Hillsdale College, another from Liberty University, and the most recent from Sewanee: The University of the South.
— Wikipedia
Metaxas was born in Astoria, Queens in New York City, grew up in Danbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University, where he edited the Yale Record, the nation’s oldest college humor magazine. Metaxas lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. He is Greek on his father’s side and German on his mother’s, while he was raised in a Greek Orthodox environment.
Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy won the 2010 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian Book of the Year. Bonhoeffer is a New York Times best seller, climbing to #1 in the e-book category. It also won the 2011 John C. Pollock Award for Christian Biography awarded by Beeson Divinity School and a 2011 Christopher Award.
Although the book is popular in the United States among evangelical Christians, Bonhoeffer scholars have criticized Metaxas’s book as unhistorical, theologically weak, and philosophically naive. Professor of German History and Bonhoeffer scholar Richard Weikart, for example, credits Metaxas’s “engaging writing style,” but points out his lack of intellectual background to interpret Bonhoeffer properly. The biography has also been criticized by Bonhoeffer scholars Victoria Barnett and Clifford Green. However, several literary critics have praised Metaxas’ work as a “weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer” and a “complete biography of a great theologian” with “liberal use of primary sources.”
Metaxas’s biography of Wilberforce, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, was the companion book to the 2006 film.
He has also written over thirty children’s books, including It’s Time to Sleep, My Love and Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving. He has written scripts for VeggieTales (even the Hamlet parody “Omelet” from “Lyle the Kindly Viking”) and provided the voice of the narrator in “Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen,” based on the Book of Esther.
Other writing has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
His Wall Street Journal essay Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God, based on chapters from his book Miracles, argues that in order for life to exist, the universe must possess conditions compatible with life, and that these conditions are the creation of a Supreme Being. Clinical neurologist Steven Novella, noting that Metaxas is an author, speaker and radio host but not a scientist, has questioned his logic, reasoning and understanding of science.
During an appearance at the International Christian Media Convention in late February 2015, Metaxas announced that he had just that day accepted an offer to host a two-hour, daily radio show to be entitled “The Eric Metaxas Show.” He announced that the show would start broadcasts in April 2015 from the Empire State Building in New York City. The show is syndicated by the Salem Radio Network.
Metaxas is the winner of several awards for his work, including the Becket Fund’s Canterbury Medal in 2011 and the Human Life Review’s Defender of Life Award in 2013. Metaxas is the recipient of three honorary doctorate degrees, one from Hillsdale College, another from Liberty University, and the most recent from Sewanee: The University of the South.
— Wikipedia
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