![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whereas Augustine stole pears from a tree because his friends were doing it, Metaxas ostracized another boy in his class because of a desire to fit in. Like Augustine, Metaxas recounts his mostly secular intellectual development, which created a foundation for his later spiritual conversion and nourishment. In a narrative reminiscent of Saint Augustine’s Confessions, Metaxas delivers a warts-and-all exploration of his youth-including discussions of elements of his early life on which he looks back with regret-in order to explain how his faith altered his trajectory. That year, when his true conversion to Christianity occurred, serves as a significant demarcation point in his journey. Metaxas, whose works include bestselling books about Martin Luther, William Wilberforce, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, narrates the story of his own life up to 1988, when he was 25. The acclaimed biographer turns to memoir. ![]()
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