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Martin Emil Marty 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 Saint 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, co-edited with historian R. Scott Appleby, and the biography, Martin Luther (2004).
Marty is the father of Minnesota State Senator John Marty.
Historian and contemporary culture watcher Martin Marty comments on Hanna Rosin’s cover story in The Atlantic, Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
The historian Martin Marty comments on the Giving USA 2009 report, that finds donations to charitable causes in the US in the first year over year drop in current dollars giving since 1987.
It is too soon to know how this recession-depression will work out for religious institutions and ideas. While watching and waiting, Historian Martin Marty decided to do what so many do: compare today to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, Martin Marty recalls a panel with his former colleague at the University of Chicago, the economist Milton Friedman, and reflects on the finite limits of human virtue, knowledge, power, and security.
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