Martin Marty

Martin Marty

Award-winning author and professor emeritus, University of Chicago

Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught religious history, chiefly in the Divinity School, for 35 years, and where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote “public religion” endeavors. For a decade prior to entering academia, the “On Faith” panelist served parishes in the west and northwest suburbs of Chicago as an ordained Lutheran pastor. Marty is the author of more than 50 books including Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970), for which he won the National Book Award. His additional honors include the National Humanities Medal, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Chicago Alumni Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal of the Association of Theological Schools, and the Order of Lincoln Medallion (Illinois’ top honor). Marty has served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the American Catholic Historical Association. He also has served on two U.S. Presidential Commissions and was director of the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago. He is Senior Regent of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Close.

Martin Marty

Award-winning author and professor emeritus, University of Chicago

Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught religious history, chiefly in the Divinity School, for 35 years, and where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote “public religion” endeavors. more »

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Trust The Child
The point of it all in the child's world is to let the love which the faiths profess be experienced by the way in which parents and siblings relate to each other when they talk about God

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moi:

Suffer the Little Children To Come Unto Me

Thus...is the Kingdom of God..

in the loving innocence of children we live and have our being.

August 19, 2007 7:58 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on August 19, 2007 19:58

Anat:

Lars, what makes you think your response is the right one? Because you were taught by a clergyperson? But others are taught by clergy of other religions and come up with other responses, some based on the same book, some on others. Why is a child's response not as valid as any of the many adults come up with?

December 7, 2006 10:17 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on December 7, 2006 22:17

Lars:

hmmmm, I would tend to trust a Pastor/Professor who quoted the Bible than a philosopher.

As my children were baptized (WELS Lutheran) I promised to raise them with the full knowledge of God. While Jesus asks us to have Child-like faith in Him, he is referring to children who know Him - not children who are ignorant of His love and sacrafice for them.

While children will come up with some interesting "responses" - they will never come up with the right one if they are not taught.

Interfaith marriages first of all show how low a priority religion is in one's life. Secondly, trying to water down religion in one of these marriages effectively destroys the childs hope of ever really believing in something.

December 7, 2006 5:08 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on December 7, 2006 17:08

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