Martin E. Marty

For other people with the same name, see Martin Marty (bishop).

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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 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 and latterly held an endowed chair (the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professorship). He retired after his seventieth birthday and now holds emeritus status. He was Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University 2003–2004.

Marty published an authored book and an edited book for every year he was a full-time professor. He has maintained that authorial pace in his retirement. His dozens of published books include Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970), for which he won the National Book Award, the encyclopedic five-volume Fundamentalism Project, co-edited with historian and former dissertation advisee R. Scott Appleby, and the biography Martin Luther (2004). He has been a columnist and senior editor for The Christian Century magazine since 1956, edited the biweekly "Context" newsletter from 1969 until 2010, and writes a weekly column distributed electronically as "Sightings" by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. In addition, he has authored over 5,000 articles and many more incidental pieces, encyclopedia entries, forewords, and the like.

Marty served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the American Catholic Historical Association. He was the founding president and later the George B. Caldwell Scholar-in-Residence at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics. He has served on two U. S. Presidential Commissions and was director of both the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago (sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts). 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.

Marty has received numerous honors, including the National Humanities Medal, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Chicago Alumni Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal of the Association of Theological Schools, the Order of Lincoln Medallion (Illinois’ top honor), and 80 honorary doctorates. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and of the American Philosophical Society and is the Mohandas M. K. Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Widower of Elsa and married now to Harriet, he has seven children (including two who joined the family as foster children), among whom are Minnesota State Senator John Marty and Rev. Peter Marty, who is currently the host of the ELCA radio ministry Grace Matters.

Select Bibliography

• Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970) Harper Torchbook 1977 paperback: ISBN 0-06-131931-7
• 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
• Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance (1987) Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-1206-8
• The Fundamentalism Project, Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Editors
  • Volume 1:Fundamentalisms Observed, Marty/Appleby, (1991) ISBN 0-226-50878-1
  • Volume 2:Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education, Marty/Appleby/Hardacre/Mendelsohn, (1993) ISBN 0-226-50881-1
  • Volume 3:Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, Marty/Appleby/Garvey/Kuran, (1993) ISBN 0-226-50884-6
  • Volume 4:Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, Marty/Appleby/Ammerman/Frykenberg/Heilman/Piscatori, (1994) ISBN 0-226-50886-2
  • Volume 5:Fundamentalisms Comprehended, Marty/Appleby, (1995) ISBN 0-226-50888-9
• Martin Luther (The Penguin Lives Series). New York: Viking (2004) ISBN 0-670-03272-7

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.

See also

• Franz Bibfeldt

External links

• Martin E. Marty homepage
• Fundamentalism Project
• Martin E. Marty Sightings Blog
• Video interview on his book, The Mystery of the Child
• Download or listen to Martin Marty interview by The Progressive magazine, 27 September 2006
• "Prison Writings in a World Come of Age: The Special Vision of Dietrich Bonhoeffer", Martin E. Marty, Berfrois, 12 May 2011
• Booknotes interview with Marty on Martin Luther, April 11, 2004.