Hutton Honors College

Discussion Lunch on Religion in Full Force at Home and Abroad
With Martin E. Marty of the University of Chicago

• Wed., Mar. 1, 2006
• 12:30-2 p.m.
• Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St.
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Religious History at the University of Chicago and one of the most prominent scholars of Modern Christianity and interpreters of religion and its role in American political and social life. He taught in the University of Chicago's divinity school for 35 years and was its first director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, which 21 years after it was founded was renamed the Martin Marty Center in his honor. He has been awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 59 honorary doctorates. Marty is author of more than 50 books, among them Righteous Empire (winner of the National Book Award); the three-volume Modern American Religion; The One and the Many: America's Search for the Common Good; Places Along the Way; Our Hope for Years to Come; The Promise of Winter; and most recently The Promise of Grace and Martin Luther (part of the "Penguin Lives" series). In addition, he has written more than 5,000 articles, essays, papers, chapters, and forewords. He has served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the American Catholic Historical Association. Before joining the Chicago faculty, he served as a Lutheran pastor. This lunch is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

Martin E. Marty will deliver the Institute for Advanced Study's Branigin Lecture on Tuesday, February 28, at 7 p.m. in Woodburn 120. The lecture is free and open to all.

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