Martin E. Marty
Shimer College in 2013 | |
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Born | Martin Emil Marty February 5, 1928 , U.S. |
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Ordained | 1952[5] |
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Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Uses of Infidelity[7] (1956) |
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Discipline | |
Sub-discipline | History of religion |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
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Notable works | Righteous Empire (1970) |
Notable ideas | Public theology |
Martin Emil Marty (born February 5, 1928) is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on religion in the United States.
Early life and education
Marty was born on February 5, 1928, in
Career
From 1963 to 1998 Marty taught at the
Marty served as president of the
, since 1988 as Regent, Board Chair, Interim President in late 2000, and since 2002 as Senior Regent.Marty retired on his seventieth birthday. He holds emeritus status at the University of Chicago; he served as Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University 2003–2004. His first wife, Elsa, died and he married again, to Harriet. He has seven children (including two foster children), among whom are John Marty, a Minnesota State Senator,[9] and Peter Marty, who hosted the ELCA radio ministry Grace Matters from 2005 to 2009; and is now publisher of The Christian Century magazine and senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa.[10]
The Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion is named for Marty and has been awarded annually since 1996.[11]
Awards and accolades
Marty has received numerous honors, including the
Named in his honor, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion is the University of Chicago Divinity School's institute for interdisciplinary research in all fields of the academic study of religion. He is an elected member of the
Marty was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 1998 in the field of Religion.[14]
Works
Overview
Marty published an authored book and an edited book for every year he was a full-time professor. He maintained that authorial pace for the first decade of his retirement, slowing only in the second. His dozens of published books include Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970), for which he won the National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion;[15]
the encyclopedic five-volume
Bibliography
Author
- The New Shape of American Religion (1958) New York: Harper and Brothers
- A Short History of Christianity, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio (1959)
- Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970) Harper Torchbook 1977 paperback: ISBN 0-06-131931-7
- Protestantism (1972) Garden City, New York: Image Books. ISBN 0-385-07610-X
- The Public Church: Mainline-Evangelical-Catholic (1981) New York: Crossroads. ISBN 0-8245-0019-9
- A Cry of Absence, Reflections for the Winter of the Heart, (1983) Harper & Row, ISBN 0-06-065434-1
- Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (1984) New York: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-00-8268-9
- Modern American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893–1919 (1986) ISBN 0-226-50893-5
- Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919–1941 (1990) ISBN 0-226-50895-1
- Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941–1960 (1996) ISBN 0-226-50899-4
- Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893–1919 (1986)
- Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance (1987) Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-1206-8
- The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World. (1992) Beacon. Boston, Massachusetts.ISBN 0-807-01216-5
- The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good (1997) Harvard University Press. 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 Georgia Press. 2004. ISBN 0-8203-2580-5.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers From Prison: A Biography (2011) Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 978-0-69113-921-0
- October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World (2016) Paraclete Press. Brewster, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-1-61261-656-8
Book chapters
- Martin E. Marty. "Half a Life in Religious Studies: Confessions of an 'Historical Historian'." pp. 151–174 in The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Martin E. Marty, "Locating Jay P. Dolan," in The American Catholic Experience: Essays in Honor of Jay P. Dolan (Catholic University of America Press, 2001), pp. 99–108 online
Articles and monographs
- Marty, Martin E. "Fundamentalism Reborn: Faith and Fanaticism." Saturday Review. May 1980, 37–42.
- Marty, Martin E. "Fundamentalism as a Social Phenomenon." Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences42 (November 1988): 15–29.
- Marty, Martin E. "Too Bad We're So Relevant: The Fundamentalism Project Projected". The Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 49 (March 1996): 22–38.
Editor
- The Place of Bonhoeffer: Problems and possibilities in his thought , Association Press, 1962.
- The Fundamentalism Project, Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Series Editors
- Fundamentalisms Observed. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 1. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1991. ISBN 0-226-50878-1.
- Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 2. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 0-226-50880-3.
- Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 3. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 0-226-50883-8.
- Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 4. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1994. ISBN 0-226-50885-4.
- Fundamentalisms Comprehended. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 5. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1995. ISBN 0-226-50887-0.
- Fundamentalisms Observed. The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 1. Chicago, Il; London: University of Chicago Press. 1991.
- Hizmet Means Service: Perspectives on an Alternative Path Within Islam, University of California Press (2015). ISBN 9780520285187
See also
- Franz Bibfeldt (fictitious theologian promoted by Marty)
References
- ^ a b "Marty, Martin E. 1928– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
- ^ Ross, Rev Craig (April 21, 2015). "4-19-15, Easter 3 (PR) Do You Have a Summer or Winter Spirituality?".
- ^ Writer, Paul Galloway, Tribune Staff (February 5, 1998). "TWO ESTEMMED CHICAGO CHURCHMEN, ANDREW GREELEY AND MARTIN MARTY, ARE TURNING 70". chicagotribune.com.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Harriet Marty". www.illuminos.com.
- ^ "Martin Marty". www.illuminos.com.
- ^ a b "Martin Emil Marty | Nebraska Authors". nebraskaauthors.org.
- OCLC 844530172.
- ^ Martin Marty. "Ph.D. advisees". Archived from the original on November 16, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
- ^ Marty, Martin E. (2008), The Christian World: A Global History. Random House, back sleeve.
- ^ "About Grace Matters". Grace Matters. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
- ^ "Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award | aarweb.org". Archived from the original on July 12, 2013.
- ^ "Honorary Degrees | Whittier College". www.whittier.edu. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
- ^ "Laureates by Year - The Lincoln Academy of Illinois". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1972". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ "Book Series: The Fundamentalism Project". December 20, 2015.
External links
- Martin E. Marty homepage
- Fundamentalism Project
- Sightings, a publication of the University of Chicago Divinity School's Martin Marty Center
- Video interview on his book, The Mystery of the Child Archived December 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Download or listen to Martin Marty interview by The Progressive magazine, September 27, 2006
- "Prison Writings in a World Come of Age: The Special Vision of Dietrich Bonhoeffer", Martin E. Marty, Berfrois, May 12, 2011
- Appearances on C-SPAN