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.
Series
Books
Fundamentalisms Observed (Volume 1)
1992
Places Along the Way
1994
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison
A Biography
2011
Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers
Exploring Christian Faith
2007
Pilgrims in Their Own Land
500 Years of Religion in America
1984
Modern American Religion, Volume 2
The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941
1991
When Faiths Collide
2004
Righteous Empire
The Protestant Experience in America
1970
Modern American Religion, Volume 1
The Irony of It All, 1893-1919
1987
Religious Crises in Modern America
1989
Baptism
1962
Martin Luther
2008
A Short History of Christianity
1980
Religion and Republic
The American Circumstance
1987
The Unrelieved Paradox
Studies in the Theology of Franz Bibfeldt
1994
October 31, 1517
Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World
2016
The Mystery of the Child (Religion, Marriage, and Family
2007
The One and the Many
America's Struggle for the Common Good
1997
The Christian World
A Global History
2008
