Featuring:

• The Reverend Dr. Martin Marty
  

   

  MODERATED BY:
  The Very Rev. Alan Jones
  

About the Program:

With religion being the subject of war and resentment in world affairs, how do we approach this touchy topic? Can religious dialogue exist in the American marketplace? As the United States grows in diversity of religion and religious opinion, the time to foster dialogue across faith lines is now. Martin Marty one of America's foremost theologians and religious historians and the author of more than 40 books will discuss the state of religion in America today.

Marty was ordained into the ministry in 1952 and served for a decade as a Lutheran parish pastor. In 1963 he joined the University of Chicago faculty, where he is now the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote "public religion" endeavors. He is the George B. Caldwell Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics, where he also serves as editor of "Second Opinion." For four decades Marty has contributed to the teaching and writing of religion. The author of more than 50 books, Marty has written the three-volume "Modern American Religion." Other recent publications are, "The One and the Many: America's Search for the Common Good," a new edition of "A Cry of Absence," and with photographer Micah Marty, "Places Along the Way." Marty is also the contributing editor and former senior editor of the "Christian Century" and he is the editor of the newsletter "Context." Marty's honors include the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Chicago Alumni Medal, and the Distinguished Service Medal of the Association of Theological Schools. He is past president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the American Catholic Historical Association. Marty has received 64 honorary doctorates. Buy Martin Marty's book Fundamentalism's Observed and support GraceOnline.