Unlock the Secrets of Greatness with Eric Metaxas' Seven Men

Bev: great book, inspirational and motivational

Canada on Dec 30, 2019

David Bell: I bought this book for my 18 year old son. It was sitting on our coffee table when my dad came to visit and he took it home. My dad enjoyed reading about each of the men and it provided good conversation during our phone calls. I ordered another book for my son and he is pouring through it. He finds the writing engaging and interesting and he is learning something too.

Canada on Sep 17, 2016

Chris O'Hara: This is a great collection of mini biographies on men I never would have learnt about otherwise. Eric Metaxas is a great storyteller, and each chapter left me wanting to read the full biography on the featured man.

Canada on Aug 05, 2016

Knisbet: Given as a gift to my son who like all young folks today could use some solid role models other than Rock and Sports celebrities.

Canada on Jun 10, 2016

David Logan: I really enjoyed this book. It is not my usual type of book but I could hardly put it down. You will be encouraged & inspired by reading it. The chapters are not I depth but there is plenty to dip into and to encourage you to read more and find out more about some of these Godly men.

United Kingdom on Jun 06, 2015

Adam Shields: Seven Men is the third books I have read by Eric Metaxas. I liked Metaxas Bonhoeffer biography (although even I as a non-Bonhoeffer scholar caught several mistakes.) But I really was not a fan of his William Wilberforce biography. Mostly that was because it felt more like hagiography.

But after reading Seven Men I realize that the Wilberforce book was his first biography. Bonhoeffer was significantly better than Wilberforce. And Seven Men I think corrected several of the problems of the Bonhoeffer biography.

The men included in this book are George Washington, William Wilberforce, Eric Liddell, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jackie Robinson, Pope John Paul II and Charles Colson (presented in historical order). I am pleased that Metaxas included John Paul II. Too many Evangelicals want to ignore Catholics. I definitely view that as a point in Metaxas’ favor.

I did get off on the wrong foot with this book, however. Metaxas starts off by saying that heroes and role models do not exist in our modern world. I think that is clearly wrong on its face. There are lots of people that get looked up to as role models. And the word hero, if anything, is overused. Metaxas problem...

United States on Apr 26, 2014

Robert J. Mack: Richard Dawkins, the British ethologist and evolutionary biologist, would hate this book. The late Christopher Hitchens, a political and social analyst whose mind and extraordinary sense of history I respected, would have also hated it. On a much lower rung of the intellectual ladder, Bill Maher, that uber-diminutive enfant terrible pundit and comic, would despise it as well. Why? Well, it's a book about seven men who loved Christ and did what they insisted God wanted them to do in order to be decent individuals. The comic, scientist, and social critic who would have rejected this book of biographies did not and two still do not believe in God, Hitchens going to his deathbed ferociously not convinced that there was a supreme being.

Eric Metaxas, biographer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and William Wilberforce, two admirable examples in this book, gives short biographies and reasons why seven extraordinary men should be held up as heroes and examples of decency in an indecent world. Does he succeed? That depends on whether or not you are tolerant of Christian belief. If the thought of religion, especially Christianity, gives you hives, then he never will convince you of God's role...

United States on Aug 29, 2013