Martin E. Marty
Martin E. Marty
Contributor

LOCATION: Chicago, IL, United States

Websites : The University of Chicago Divinity School, Bill Moyers Journal, The Huffington Post

BIOGRAPHY

Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Divinity School, University of Chicago. Senior Editor, The Christian Century. Author of Religion & Republic: The American Circumstance and others.

Primary Contributions (4)
mosaic: Christianity
Christianity, major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century ce. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused of all faiths. It has a constituency of…
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Publications (5)
The Christian World: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles)
The Christian World: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles) (January 2009)
By Martin Marty
In this cogent volume, historian Martin Marty gives readers of all faiths a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it grew from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world’s largest religion. He depicts the life of Christ and his teachings and explains how the apostles set out to spread the Gospel. With a special emphasis on global Christianity, Marty shows how the religion emerged from its ancestral homeland in Africa, the Levant, and Asia Minor, was imported to Europe,...
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Martin Luther: A Life (Penguin Lives)
Martin Luther: A Life (Penguin Lives) (August 2008)
By Martin E. Marty
Called ?The most influential interpreter of American religion? by Bill Moyers, renowned historian and Lutheran pastor Martin Marty portrays the religious reformer Martin Luther as a man of conscience and courage who risked death to ignite the historic reformation of the Church. Luther?s arguments, including his ?95 theses,? changed the destiny of Christendom, the shape of Christianity, and gave rise to new freedoms in church and state. Marty explores the records left by Luther of his inner struggles...
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Baptism: A User's Guide (Exploring Christian Faith)
Baptism: A User's Guide (Exploring Christian Faith) (November 2008)
By Martin E. Marty
To see baptism as merely a ceremony greatly limits the meanings of Christian baptism, says Martin Marty, in this practical and inspirational new look at baptism. Martin Luther recommended that believers should begin and end their day reminding themselves of their baptism and then go to work joyfully or to sleep cheerfully.Baptism, says Marty, is at the heart ofthe everyday, life-long spiritual journey as he explores such questions as: How did early Christians understand and practice baptism?...
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The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World
The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World (December 1992)
By Martin E. Marty

The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World

Photographs by Micah Marty

"Something rare: a fair-minded assessment of religious fundamentalism. In this companion volume to a three-part PBS series, Marty and Appleby aim to dissipate the fog of ignorance that surrounds the average understanding of fundamentalism.. . . A useful guide to what is proving to be . . . a historical movement at least as important as Marxist-Leninism."
-Kirkus Reviews

Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America
Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (August 1985)
By Martin E. Marty
Pilgrims in Their Own Land is Martin E. Marty's vivid chronological account of the people and events that carved the spiritual landscape of America. It is in one sense a study of migration, with each wave of immigrants bringing a set of religious beliefs to a new world. The narrative unfolds through sharply detailed biographical vignettes—stories of religious "pathfinders," including William Penn, Mary Baker Eddy, Henry David Thoreau, and many other leaders of movements, both marginal and...
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