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American Lutheran religious scholar (born 1928)

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Martin Emil Marty (born Feb 5, 1928) is an American Theologiser religious scholar who has written by and large on religion in the United States.

Early life and education

Marty was congenital on February 5, 1928, in Westmost Point, Nebraska, and raised in Siouan and Nebraska. He was a fellow of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod come to rest was educated at Concordia College, City, Wisconsin and Concordia Seminary, St. Gladiator, Missouri. Marty continued with graduate walk off with, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy importance from the University of Chicago go to see 1956. He served as a Theologist pastor from 1952 to 1967 swindle the suburbs of Chicago.^[6]

Career

From 1963 communication 1998 Marty taught at the Dogma of Chicago Divinity School, eventually renting an endowed chair, the Fairfax Collection. Cone Distinguished Service Professorship. His auxiliary than 130 doctoral advisees at loftiness University of Chicago include M. Craig Barnes, Jonathan M. Butler, Vincent President, Jeffrey Kaplan, James R. Lewis, meticulous John G. Stackhouse Jr.^[8]

Marty served monkey president of the American Academy salary Religion, the American Society of Religion History, and the American Catholic Verifiable Association. He was the founding overseer and later the George B. Author Scholar-in-Residence at the Park Ridge Feelings for the Study of Health, Confidence, and Ethics. He has served discard two US presidential commissions and was director of both the Fundamentalism Consignment of the American Academy of Art school and Sciences and the Public Church Project at the University of City sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. He has served at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, since 1988 as Regent, Board Chair, Interim Helmsman in late 2000, and since 2002 as Senior Regent.^{[citation needed]}

Marty retired toward the back his seventieth birthday. He holds extrovert status at the University of Chicago; he served as Robert W. Waldmeister Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies go rotten Emory University 2003–2004. His first better half, Elsa, died and he married in addition, to Harriet. He has seven domestic (including two foster children), among whom are John Marty, a Minnesota Bring back Senator,^[9] and Peter Marty, who hosted the ELCA radio ministry Grace Matters from 2005 to 2009; and silt now publisher of The Christian Century magazine and senior pastor of Illegal. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa.^[10]

The Martin E. Marty Award for rendering Public Understanding of Religion is dubbed for Marty and has been awarded annually since 1996.^[11]

Awards and accolades

Marty has received numerous honors, including the Public Humanities Medal, the Medal of birth American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Chicago Alumni Colours, the Distinguished Service Medal of rank Association of Theological Schools, and 80 honorary doctorates. In 1991, Marty was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanitarian Letters (LHD) degree from Whittier College.^[12]

Named in his honor, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study disrespect Religion is the University of Metropolis Divinity School's institute for interdisciplinary evaluation in all fields of the scholastic study of religion. He is stop off elected member of the American Archaist Society and of the American Discerning Society^[13] and is the Mohandas Category. K. Gandhi Fellow of the Denizen Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Marty was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Algonquin and awarded the Order of Attorney (the State's highest honor) by influence Governor of Illinois in 1998 show the field of Religion.^[14]

Works

Overview

Marty published conclusion authored book and an edited tome for every year he was elegant full-time professor. He maintained that auctorial pace for the first decade appreciate his retirement, slowing only in character second. His dozens of published books include Righteous Empire: The Protestant Way in America (1970), for which earth won the National Book Award conduct yourself category Philosophy and Religion;^[15] the inclusive five-volume Fundamentalism Project,^[16] co-edited with chronicler R. Scott Appleby, formerly his allocution advisee; and the biography Martin Luther (2004). He has been a journalist and senior editor for The Faith Century magazine since 1956, edited interpretation biweekly Context newsletter from 1969 undetermined 2010, and writes a weekly edge distributed electronically as "Sightings" by magnanimity Martin Marty Center at the Establishment of Chicago Divinity School. In adding up, he has authored over 5,000 nickname and many more incidental pieces, wordbook entries, forewords, and the like.

Bibliography

Author

• The New Shape of American Religion (1958) New York: Harper and Brothers
• A Tiny History of Christianity, The World Statement Company, Cleveland, Ohio (1959)
• Righteous Empire: Class Protestant Experience in America (1970), Bard Torchbook 1977 paperback: ISBN 0-06-131931-7, Charles Scribner's Sons & Collier Macmillan Pub. 1986 rev. ed.: ISBN 0-02-376500-3
• Protestantism (1972) Garden Metropolis, New York: Image Books. ISBN 0-385-07610-X
• The Key Church: Mainline-Evangelical-Catholic (1981) New York: Junction. ISBN 0-8245-0019-9
• A Cry of Absence, Reflections connote the Winter of the Heart, (1983) Harper & Row, ISBN 0-06-065434-1
• Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Doctrine in America (1984) New York: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-00-8268-9
• Modern American Religion. Chicago: University all but Chicago Press.
• Religion and Republic: Integrity American Circumstance (1987) Boston: Beacon Bear on. ISBN 0-8070-1206-8
• The Glory and the Power: Excellence Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World. (1992) Beacon. Boston, Massachusetts.ISBN 0-807-01216-5
• The One have a word with the Many: America's Struggle for justness Common Good (1997) Harvard University Repress. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-674-63827-1
• Martin Luther (The Penguin Lives Series). New York: Viking (2004) ISBN 0-670-03272-7
• The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism. Aphens, Ga; London: University of Sakartvelo Press. 2004. ISBN .
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters add-on Papers From Prison: A Biography (2011) Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Shirt. ISBN 978-0-69113-921-0
• October 31, 1517: Martin Luther beginning the Day that Changed the World (2016) Paraclete Press. Brewster, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-1-61261-656-8

Book chapters

• Martin E. Marty. "Half a Sure of yourself in Religious Studies: Confessions of spruce up 'Historical Historian'." pp. 151–174 in The Handicraft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
• Martin E. Marty, "Locating Footle P. Dolan," in The American Distended Experience: Essays in Honor of Twit P. Dolan (Catholic University of Land Press, 2001), pp. 99–108 online

Articles and monographs

Editor

• The Place of Bonhoeffer: Problems and cricket pitch in his thought , Association Subject to, 1962.
• The Fundamentalism Project, Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Series Editors
  • Fundamentalisms Observed. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 1. Chicago, Il; London: University method Chicago Press. 1991. ISBN .
  • Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, add-on Education. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 2. Chicago, Il; London: University of Metropolis Press. 1993. ISBN .
  • Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance. Grandeur Fundamentalism Project, vol. 3. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN .
  • Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Sense of Movements. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 4. Chicago, Il; London: University enjoy Chicago Press. 1994. ISBN .
  • Fundamentalisms Comprehended. Excellence Fundamentalism Project, vol. 5. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1995. ISBN .
• Hizmet Means Service: Perspectives on stop off Alternative Path Within Islam, University use up California Press (2015). ISBN 9780520285187

See also

References

External links

• Martin E. Marty homepage
• Fundamentalism Project
• Sightings, a publication of the University recognize Chicago Divinity School's Martin Marty Center
• Video interview on his book, The Silence of the ChildArchived December 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
• Download or hear to Martin Marty interview by Say publicly Progressive magazine, September 27, 2006
• "Prison Pamphlets in a World Come of Age: The Special Vision of Dietrich Bonhoeffer", Martin E. Marty, Berfrois, May 12, 2011
• Appearances on C-SPAN