1989 Tanner-McMurrin Lecture

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Martin E. Marty
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago

“We Might Know What to Do and How to Do It:
On the Usefulness of the Religious Past”
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Lecture was given: Monday, March 20, 1989
7:00p.m. Gore Auditorium
Seminar was held: Tuesday, March 21, 1989 11:00a.m. Nunemaker Place

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1956. Since 1963 he has taught in the Divinity School, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the History Department.

Dr. Marty is also Senior Editor of the weekly The Christian Century, editor of the fortnightly newsletter Context, and co-editor of the quarterly Church History.

He is President of the American academy of Religion, the organization of 4,600 scholars of religion. He is Past President of both the American Society of Church History (1971) and the American Catholic Historical Association (1981). The holder of 29 honorary doctorates, he is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and sciences and an elected Member of the Society of American Historians and the American antiquarian Society. He won the National Book Award for Righteous Empire in 1972.

He is on numerous boards, including the National Humanities Center (in North Carolina) and the Carter Presidential Center (in Atlanta).

This year he embarks on a five-year comparative study of world fundamentalism, a project he chairs for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

He is the author of 40 books. His two most recent are Modern American Religion Volume I:1893-1919, “The Irony of It All” (University of Chicago) and Religion and Republic; The American circumstance (Beacon). His next book will be Volume II of his four-volume work, The Noise of conflict, 1920-1951 scheduled for 1990-1991.

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