ERIC METAXAS | Religionless Christianity (Ep. 658)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Eric Metaxas back to the show. He is a #1 NYT bestselling author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written biographies of Christian giants like William Wilberforce, Martin Luther, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and must-reads like Is Atheism Dead?, Letter to the American Church, and his newest book Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil. In this interview, we discuss why he feels that America is in her third existential crisis, how our current moment correlates to what we saw with the rise of the Nazi party in the 1930s in Germany, what would have happened had more pastors risen up to defy Adolf Hitler, why Bonhoeffer talked about “Religionless Christianity”, the problem with pastors never finding a hill worth dying on, how we will all eventually have to decide if we are going to “burn the boats”, how the “seeker sensitive” church movement has weakened the church overall in America, the next book he is currently working on that does not have an explicitly Christian angle, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm your host Kyle Tom. This is Undaunted Life A Man's Podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:25.8	Let's get into it.
0:26.8	All right guys, we got a special return guest on the podcast.
0:28.8	He's one of my favorite return guests.
0:30.1	This is Eric Mataxus.
0:31.4	So he's the number one New York Times best-selling author,
0:33.9	a speaker and conservative radio show host.
0:36.0	He has written amazing biographies about Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
0:39.1	William Wilberforce, Martin Luther.
0:40.9	He's been on the show twice before he's been on episode 248 and 364
0:44.8	and he's the author of the new book called Religionless Christianity God's Answer to Evil.
0:49.0	Now that book is the follow-up to his last book which was letter to the American Church which I've talked
0:53.0	about a lot on this podcast it goes even further into Dietrich Bonhoeffer
0:57.0	and what was happening between the German Church and the Confessing Church
0:59.8	and what would have happened if more people from the German church more pastors specifically
1:03.7	had stood up essentially there would have been no rise in the Nazi party no third Reich
1:08.0	no World War II no Holocaust none of those things but a lot of them stayed silent because they wanted to be known
1:13.4	for what they were for not what they were against and so today on this podcast we
1:16.6	talk a little bit about a work that he's got coming up so he doesn't ever get
1:19.6	really asked about hey what's the next thing you're working on so he gave a
1:22.1	really interesting answer to that so I thought
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