Martin E. Marty, Ph.D.

Martin E. Marty, Ph.D., is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught in the Divinity School for 35 years, and where the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion is located. A renowned historian, theologian and interpreter of religion and culture, with over 60 books, 5,000 scholarly articles, and 75 honorary Ph.D.s to his name, Marty was in residence at Emory University for the 2003-2004 academic year to co-direct the “Child in Law, Religion, and Society” interdisciplinary project, which brought together two dozen senior faculty to focus on children. Out of that work came his elegiac, erudite book, The Mystery of the Child.

Marty’s many honors include the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, 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).