Eric Metaxas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Eric Metaxas
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Jan 1, 1963(1963-01-01)
Age	61
Birthplace	Astoria
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Eric Metaxas Biography

Eric Metaxas is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on January 1, 1963 in Astoria, New York, United States. Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American speaker, author in addition to a radio show with a moderate stance. He is famous for his three biographies: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, and Spy on Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Discovered God and Transformed the World about Martin Luther (2017). He also wrote humor and children’s books as well as the scripts of VeggieTales. Metaxas is the co- creator and hosts of the New York-based event series “Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life” and hosts The nationally-syndicated radio show, The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas’s biography on Wilberforce, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, was the book that was a companion to the film of the same name in 2006.

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 has received multiple honorary doctorate degrees, including from Hillsdale College, Liberty University, Sewanee: The University of the South, Ohio Christian University, and Colorado Christian University.

On February 2, 2012, Metaxas was the keynote speaker for the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast. On July 3, 2018, Metaxas spoke at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, on the significance of Martin Luther’s role in Christianity and its implications for Western thought.

Metaxas was born as a member of Metaxas was raised in Greek Orthodox Church and while Metaxas hasn’t officially removed himself from it (saying that he is a man of “great respect” for it) He has been a member of Calvary-St. George Church of the Episcopal in New York since 2001. Metaxas calls himself the “Mere Christian” after the works of C.S. Lewis The author says that his books “don’t touch upon anything at all where Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians differ. They express just the basics of the faith, from a basic, ecumenical Christian viewpoint. They only talk about the Christian faith that they have agreement on.”

Eric Metaxas Net Worth

Eric Metaxas is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Metaxas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Metaxas was born in the New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. He earned his degree at Yale University (1984, B.A., English). In Yale, he served as editor of The Yale Record, the nation’s oldest college humor magazine. Metaxas reside in Manhattan along with his spouse and child. The man is Greek on the father’s side as well as German to his mom’s side however, he was raised in an Greek Orthodox environment.

In the latter part of the 1990s, Metaxas composed BreakPoint radio commentary for the former Nixon adviser along with Prison Fellowship founder Charles “Chuck” Colson. Following Colson’s demise after 2012 Metaxas and John Stonestreet, became the voice of BreakPoint and it is now shown every weekday on 1350 stations across the nation.

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 his “engaging writing style,” but claims Metaxas has a lack of intellectual background to interpret Bonhoeffer properly. The biography has also been criticized by Bonhoeffer scholars Victoria Barnett and Clifford Green. However, Metaxas’ work has also been praised as a “weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer” which “bring[s] Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life”.

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Who is Eric Metaxas Dating?

According to our records, Eric Metaxas married to Susanne Metaxas. As of December 1, 2023, Eric Metaxas’s is not dating anyone.

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Metaxas has become a prominent supporter of Donald Trump. In 2019, Metaxas published two children’s books called Donald Builds the Wall and Donald Drains the Swamp in a series called “Donald the Caveman”. Other characters in the book include those Metaxas has called “an angry little girl who looks a little bit like AOC” and “an angry, crazy old man who looks a little bit like a guy named Bernie.” In a November 2019 interview with Franklin Graham, Metaxas said that opposition to Trump was “demonic”.

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Eric Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Eric Metaxas celebrates birthday on January 1 of every year.

Does Eric Metaxas have a wife?

Susanne Metaxas

How old is Eric Metaxas?

58 years (June 27, 1963)

Is Eric Metaxas on the radio?

Along with his colleague John Stonestreet, Metaxas is the voice of BreakPoint, a radio commentary that is broadcast on 1,400 radio outlets with an audience of eight million.

What church does Eric Metaxas attend?

Metaxas was raised in the Greek Orthodox Church and while he has not formally left it (saying he has “great respect” for it) he attended Calvary-St. George’s Episcopal Church. He has spoken at Times Square Church.

What does Metaxas mean?

Greek: occupational name for a silkworm breeder, silk merchant, or silk manufacturer , from metaxi ‘silk’ + -as, suffix of occupational names.