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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Seventy Images of Grace in the Epistles . . .

Bible Studies & Devotionals

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Singing the Church's Song

Preaching & Worship

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Chicago Declaration

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“If the movement sustains itself long enough to have engagements with the churches that produced its leaders, we may see something more significant than the now-passing 'Jesus freakism' or the ongoing Pentecostal-charismatic movements. Out of this, people might be fed, the law might be rendered justly, and America might relocate itself in the world. One can dream.”

The Ministry of Vincent Van Gogh in Religion and Art

Arts & Literature

“One hopes readers will find or even join the figurative, spiritual journey on which this book thrives.”

They Are Us, Second Edition

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Twentieth-Century Global Christianity

History & Biography

“These stories may come up from the basement of church history, but news about their existence deserves to be shouted from the housetops.”

Understanding Rosenstock-Huessy

Philosophy

“I was influenced enough by Rosenstock-Huessy to write a now forgotten book on his theme, Respondeo etsi mutabor, ‘I respond although I will be changed.’ The motto would be on my coat of arms if I had one.”

What Cannot Be Fixed

Arts & Literature

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Wittenberg Meets the World

Theology

“Where are we now? García and Nunes, by telling some stories of 'elsewhere,' help readers find 'here,' where we are called . . . to care for others whom we have overlooked before. The new vision is liberating.”