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.”
