Metaxas - Seven women : and the secret of their greatness

PRAISE FOR SEVEN WOMEN

Its the rare male who can portray women so vividly. Eric Metaxas proves hes one of the rare ones with his new book Seven Women.

Kathie Lee Gifford, Emmy Awardwinning host of Today

Eric Metaxas offers a refreshing view of womanhood as he holds up a plumbline by which we can all measure ourselves. Faith strengthened by fire, courage to forsake personal comfort, boldness to take great risks, sacrificial compassion for others, convictions to live... and die... by, are just some of the common denominators of Seven Women. Although I dont measure up, this book makes me proud to take my stand as a Christian woman.

Anne Graham Lotz, author and speaker (www.annegrahamlotz.org)

Some authors give us words that are delicious to read. Others provide content that is good and necessary. Eric Metaxas consistently brings us the rare gift of both at the same time. If we are pulled toward complacency or discouragement, Eric gives an irresistible push toward hope and inspiration. If they could do it then, we can do it now! Here am I, send me! We need to be inspiredbreathed into. We need the wind of God in our sails for our time. In Seven Women, the familiar breeze is stirring again.

Twila Paris, singer-songwriter and author

In writing about these seven singular, extraordinary women, Eric Metaxas does honor to all women. I finished Seven Women feeling more blessed and encouraged in simply being a woman than ever before. The accomplishments of these womenfrom across time and circumstanceshave indelibly shaped the world we know today. Their stories will educate, encourage, and inspire every reader. This might be the best book you read this year.

Karen Swallow Prior, author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce ConvictionsThe Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

What we have in Seven Women is a great biographer, Eric Metaxas, writing, with his inimitable genius for depicting moral greatness, about the lives of seven great women. Once you have read Seven Women, you will: a) understand what makes male and female greatness both similar andeven more importantly in an age that depicts men and women as essentially identicaldifferent; b) wonder why you didnt know about all of these women before; and c) implore Eric Metaxas to immediately write a biography of seven more women. Thats how good Seven Women is.

Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist, New York Times bestselling author

To say that Eric Metaxas is an inspiration would be an understatement. Its not very often I come across a book such as Seven Women that has such a profound impact on my life. Erics ability to engage readers through the lives of these seven women will not only empower you, but will ignite a fire in you to know that we as human beings all have the power to impact the world.

April Hernandez Castillo, film and television actress and speaker

Religion poisons everythingexcept, it seems, for the untold people touched by the lives of these seven incredible women. Your jaw will drop as you read these portraits of courage, each inspired by a personal vision of God and a convictional embrace of self-sacrifice. Metaxass beautifully written book answers the question: How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence.

Owen Strachan, author, The Colson Way

Eric Metaxass Seven Women is the encouragement and inspiration to rally on as a woman trying to make a difference in our culture. The women Eric chose gave me more energy than any protein shake. This book will be required reading for my four daughters.

Carolyn Copeland, Broadway producer, Amazing Grace: The Musical

Eric Metaxas writes Seven Women with a tender brotherly loveboth in his admiration and gratitude for the women he profiles and with his challenge to men not to overlook this book and a culture to reconsider its view of womens greatness. As hes been known to do, Metaxas reintroduces some lost fundamentals here and urges us to be better by showing how its done.

Kathryn Jean Lopez, senior fellow, National Review Institute

I was one of those who hoped Eric would write Seven Women, not only because I loved Seven Men but because I knew it would be a book I would want my daughters to read. It is. Eric celebrates these women not only as remarkable people who happened to be women, but as remarkable because they were women. I cant wait to read this with my girls.

John Stonestreet, speaker and fellow, Colson Center for Christian Worldview

What a felicitous idea to write a book about women who lived up to their noble and great mission in marriage, the family, and the world. Eric Metaxas is responding to an urgent call: to reawaken women who have fallen into the trap of feminisma murderer of chivalryto wake up and thank God for being privileged to have the same sex as the mother of Christ.

Dame Alice von Hildebrand, Catholic philosopher, theologian, and professor emerita at Hunter College

Here is a biographer who is refreshingly and unashamedly attentive to the moral and spiritual qualities of great leaders. In these deftly written accounts, Eric Metaxas reminds us why each of these unforgettable women delivered such a bracing challenge to the spirit of their age, why each represents a unique profile in courage. A careful study of their lives and careers would be a tonic to the leadership crisis that besets our own day.

Joseph Loconte, professor at the Kings College and author of A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War

Metaxas makes these women come alive. I cant help wanting to gather them all in a room and ask a million questions.... Until that group meeting happens, this book is the next best thing.

Joy Eggerichs, director of Love and Respect Now

Eric Metaxass new book Seven Women demonstrates, once again, Erics incredible gift for storytelling. In the span of only a paragraph or two, he skillfully draws the reader into a narrative that is at once informative, historical, observational, and even whimsical.

Marybeth Hicks, author, columnist, and speaker

Metaxas has done it again, bringing renewed insight into these women from across the centuries! Men as well as women will benefit from reading about the struggles that made these women great, the crucibles that shaped their character, and the greatness that comes from simple, deep faith.

Chuck Roberts, pastor, Peachtree Presbyterian Church

2015 by Eric Metaxas

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Chapter opening photo credits: Maria Skobtsova: Art Resource Photo; Hannah More: Art Resource Photo; Corrie ten Boom: Corrie ten Boom House Foundation; Susanna Wesley: Granger Images; Mother Teresa: Art Resource Photo; Joan of Arc: Bridgeman Images; Rosa Parks: Public Domain