wfn.org | Martin Marty to Moderate Changing Society Panel at RCCongress 2010

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> Martin Marty

Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the 
History of Modern Christianity in the University of Chicago Divinity School

> RCCongress 2010:

Panel Moderator for Changing Society, Changing Media

Rev. Dr. Martin Marty, is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service 
Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the 
University of Chicago Divinity School, where he taught for 35 years. 
The Martin Marty Center has been founded there to promote "public 
religion" endeavors.

An internationally known commentator on the church in society, Dr. 
Marty has been a regular columnist for The Christian Century, editor 
of Context, a newsletter on religion and culture, and weekly 
contributes to Sightings, an electronic editorial published by the 
Marty Center. He is the author of more than 5,000 articles and 50 
books, including Righteous Empire, for which he won the National Book Award.

He was 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 both the Fundamentalism Project of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Public Religion Project at the 
University of Chicago.

Dr. Marty is the recipient of numerous honors including 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). 
Marty has received 75 honorary doctorates.

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