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”.
