Writing in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals how the extraordinary women profiled here achieved their greatness, inspiring readers to lives guided by a call beyond themselves. And Rosa Parks' God-given sense of justice and unshakable dignity helped launch the twentieth century's greatest social movement. Corrie ten Boom risked her life to hide Dutch Jews from the Nazis in World War II and somehow survived the horrors of a concentration camp, but her greatest feat was forgiving her tormentors years later. Hannah More played a crucial role in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Teenaged Joan of Arc heard God's command and led the French army to a mighty victory over the British. Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Rosa Parks, and Mother Teresa - each of these world-changing figures followed the call placed on her life, doing so with remarkable feminine dignity. These and other lives profiled in Seven Men and Seven Women reveal how reveal the secret to a life of greatness-by responding to call to live for something greater than oneself.Seven Women explores the question by telling the captivating stories of seven women who changed the course of history. Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history s greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God s call upon their lives-as women. And Rosa Parks's God-given sense of justice and unshakable dignity helped launch the twentieth century's greatest social movement.

Corrie ten Boom risked her life to hide Dutch Jews from the Nazis in World War II and survived the horrors of a concentration camp-and forgave her tormentors years later. I had only heard of four of these women prior to reading this book. Jackie Robison endured the threats and abuse of racists with unimaginable dignity and strength. Metaxas examines the following women: Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, and Saint Maria of Paris (a Greek Orthodox saint), Corrieten Boom, Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa. Susanna Wesley, the mother of nineteen children, gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. William Wilberforce led the fight to end the slave trade, giving up his chance to be England's prime minister. George Washington led his country to independence yet resisted the temptation to become America's king. In this new, one-volume edition that brings together two of his most popular works, #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas explores the question of what makes a great person great? Seven Men and Seven Women tells the captivating stories of fourteen heroic individuals who changed the course of history and shaped the world in astonishing ways. /rebates/2fp2fWomen2fEric-Metaxas2f9780718021832&. Two beloved Metaxas classics in a single, compact edition.

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