Metaxas is the author of more than thirty children’s books, including the bestsellers Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving and It's Time to Sleep, My Love, illustrated by Nancy Tillman. They only talk about the Christian faith that they have agreement on." In his book Martin Luther, however, Metaxas criticized the political power structures that had emerged from the medieval Catholic Church and that it was only with Luther that the "true Gospel" was rescued "from under its crushing welter of ecclesiastical and political medieval structures." Writing
They express just the basics of the faith, from a basic, ecumenical Christian viewpoint. In 2007, he said his books "don't touch upon anything at all where Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians differ. Metaxas describes himself as a "Mere Christian" in the words of C.S. Īlthough he was raised in the Greek Orthodoxy and has not formally left the denomination (saying he has "great respect" for it), Metaxas has attended Calvary-St.
He is Greek on his father's side and German on his mother's he was raised in a Greek Orthodox environment. Metaxas lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. While there, he edited the Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine. He graduated from Yale University (1984, B.A., English). Metaxas was born in the New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut.
He has also written humor, children's books and scripts for VeggieTales. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017), If You Can Keep it (2017), Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life (2021) and Letter to the American Church (2022). Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host.
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