Martin E. Marty
Biography
Martin E. Marty is an ordained Lutheran minister and Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. Marty has served on the masthead of The Christian Century and as editor of Context, and previously headed the six-year "Fundamentalism Project" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Marty's books include Building Cultures of Trust (2022), and Marty wrote the foreword to They Are Us, Second Edition (2020) and the introduction to A Little Exercise for Young Theologians (2016).
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A Field Guide for the Missional Congregation
Church Leadership & Ministry
Foreword
(wrote the foreword)
A People's History of Christianity
History & Biography
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History & Biography
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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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Christians and a Land Called Holy
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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“Richard L. Morgan's From Grim to Green Pastures writes of reflections that came to him during his time of illness. This book offers 81 two-page meditations properly sized for those who are being cared for, or those who busily care for them. His excerpts about a "spirituality of illness," serve us well.”
From The Parish For The Life Of The World
Church Leadership & Ministry
Foreword
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Foreword
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