Martin E. Marty

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Martin Emil Marty (b. February 5, 1928, West Point, Nebraska) is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956, and served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School, held an endowed chair, and now holds emeritus status.

He has served St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota since 1988 as Regent, Board Chair, Interim President in late 2000, and now as Senior Regent. He has been a columnist for The Christian Century magazine since 1956. He has authored over 5,000 articles and been conferred with 75 honorary doctorates.

His published works include Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970), for which he won the National Book Award, the encyclopedic five-volume Fundamentalism Project,[1] co-edited with historian R. Scott Appleby, and the biography, Martin Luther (2004).

Marty is the father of Minnesota State Senator John Marty.[2] and of the Rev. Peter Marty who is currently the host of the ELCA radio ministry Grace Matters.

In 2000, he was a critic of the Holy Office's document on relativism, Dominus Iesus.[3]

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Bibliography

Additional biographical source: 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.

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References

  1. ^ The Fundamentalism Project
  2. ^ Marty, Martin E. (2008), The Christian World: A Global History. Random House, back sleeve.
  3. ^ Dominus Iesus: An Ecclesiological Critique

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