1994-1995 Rev. Dr. Martin Marty
At the time of his Christian Culture lectures, Dr MARTIN E. MARTY was the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at
the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. One of
America's foremost theologians and religious historians and
the author of more than 45 books, Marty was one of the first
10 recipients of the National Humanities Medal bestowed by
US President William Clinton in 1997. Marty is the director
of the Public Religion Project Linking Religion and American
Public Life--funded by Pew Charitable Trusts--the senior
editor of the weekly Christian Century and the editor of the
newsletter Context.
Marty was Project Director for the
five-year Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, which studied comparative fundamentalist
religious movements around the world. He is a fellow of the
two oldest scholarly societies of the United States, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which awarded him its
medal in 1995, and the American Philosophical Society. He is
past president of the American Academy of Religion, the
American Society of Church History and the American Catholic
Historical Association. In 1972 he won the National Book
Award for Righteous Empire. Marty received his Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago in 1956.
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