The focus is on “ordinary” not “women.” I know ordinary women named Joan, Suzanna, Hannah, Maria, Corrie, Teresa and Rosa. Ordinary women can be used in extraordinary ways by God. My wife Jocelyn read “7 Women” and was quick to loan it to her friends and have it stocked in our church’s bookstore.
You won’t regret an investment in a personal copy of the book. I’m grateful to Metaxas for introducing me to seven new heroes of faith. I’d never heard of Hannah More or Maria Skobtsova and my library shelves were void of books about the other five. Metaxas says “biographies enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, mores, beams and distortions.” Biographies My personal library is stocked with biographies of accomplished athletes, Civil War generals, politicians, missionaries, innovators and entrepreneurs. I can readily enjoy a pleasant weekend wrapped up in stories well told. Metaxas is a master writer of biographies. He highlights the stories of Joan of Arc, Suzanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks. And Rosa Parks’s deep sense of justice and unshakable dignity and faith helped launch the twentieth-century’s greatest social movement.“7 Women And The Secret Of Their Greatness” is the latest Eric Metaxas page turner.
Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn writer, her sons John and Charles. Teenaged Joan of Arc followed God’s call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyr’s death. In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of the greatest women who ever lived, each of whom changed the course of history by following God’s call upon their lives-now in paperback.
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