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A Cry of Absence

Reflections for the Winter of the Heart

By: Martin E. Marty

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A Cry of Absence

Reflections for the Winter of the Heart

By: Martin E. Marty

Beginning with the Psalms and adding the distilled wisdom of years of study and writing, Martin Marty offers a meditation marked by insight, strength, and a sure, sober faith. Throughout A Cry of Absence, he pursues the metaphor of the "winter of the heart." Marty bases his concept of the wintry way to God on a passage from the theologian Karl Rahner, describing a "wintry sort of spirituality." It refers to movement toward faith that grapples with pain, uncertainty, evil, loss, and the mystery of death to discover "hope on the winter-fallow landscape.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725227118

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9781725227118

Modern American Religion, Volume 3

Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960

By: Martin E. Marty

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Modern American Religion, Volume 3

Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960

By: Martin E. Marty

Vol. 1: The Irony of it all, 1893-1919; Vol. 2: The Noise of conflict, 1919-1941.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226508986

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9780226508986

The Public Church

Mainline - Evangelical - Catholic

By: Martin E. Marty

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The Public Church

Mainline - Evangelical - Catholic

By: Martin E. Marty

This is the first book to discern and spell out the fascinating coalescence of churches in America today. Drawing on mainline Protestantism, the newer evangelicalism, and Roman Catholicism, this new community, or "community of communities," may be called a "public church" because it is particularly sensitive to the public order and to the interplay of its members as citizens and church people. In a world of increasing interreligious tensions and in an America growing weary of pluralism and freedom, the public church both fills a void and counters trends at home and abroad.Grounded in an historical understanding of the Christian churches in America, The Public Church draws on biblical, theological, and political motifs to offer a model for self-understanding and mission in the years ahead. It discusses the nature of the public church, its relation to the individual traditions from which it springs, its continuing reliance on the local congregation, its relation to the New Christian Right, and the political balance between left and right that must be maintained if the public church is to grow even more effective as a religious force and as a humane venture. In short, the book is an analysis of American Christianity in its newest and most exciting phase.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620325217

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9781620325216

Martin Luther

A Life

By: Martin E. Marty

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Martin Luther

A Life

By: Martin E. Marty

Called 'The most influential interpreter of American religion' by Bill Moyers, renowned historian and Lutheran pastor Martin Marty portrays the religious reformer Martin Luther as a man of conscience and courage who risked death to ignite the historic reformation of the Church. Luther's arguments, including his '95 theses,' changed the destiny of Christendom, the shape of Christianity, and gave rise to new freedoms in church and state. Marty explores the records left by Luther of his inner struggles and his conflicts with the Holy Roman Empire to find a man engaged in a lifelong passionate search for not only the grace of God, but also for the assurance that it was directed toward each individual.

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Penguin

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0143114301

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9780143114307

Religion and Republic

The American Circumstance

By: Martin E. Marty

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Religion and Republic

The American Circumstance

By: Martin E. Marty

America's preeminent religious historian reflects on the critical role of religious diversity in our national self-understanding.

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Beacon Press

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0807012076

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9780807012079

Hizmet Means Service

Perspectives on an Alternative Path Within Islam

By: Martin E. Marty

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Hizmet Means Service

Perspectives on an Alternative Path Within Islam

By: Martin E. Marty

Hizmet Means Service is an examination of the Hizmet movement. Hizmet is named for its focus on service, but it is also often called the Gulen movement, after the Turkish intellectual and inspiration for the movement, Fethullah Gulen, who is known for his contribution to improved interfaith relations. This book studies Hizmet in twelve chapters written by contributors from around the world. This book does not presume that all readers are familiar with Hizmet, but we move beyond mere introductions into scholarly analysis of Fethullah Gulen and the manifestations of this movement"--Provided by publisher.

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Univ of California Press

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0520285174

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9780520285170

Baptism

A User's Guide

By: Martin E. Marty

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Baptism

A User's Guide

By: Martin E. Marty

From the earliest days of Christianity, baptism has been a foundational act of faith for the believing community. Although churches may (and do) disagree about whether infants should or shouldn't be baptized, about whether baptism should be by "immersion" or "pouring," and about other doctrinal details-all would agree that baptism mattered to early Christians and still matters. And yet for all too many, baptism remains a ritual hardly understood, and one that seems to lack relevance for the lives we lead from day to day. Here is a book that delves into the mystery, brings understanding, and connects the "water and Word" of baptism to the tragedies and triumphs of daily life. With good humor, sound scholarship, and down-to-earth common sense, Martin Marty demonstrates how baptism can be "used" from day to day in a vibrant life of faith.

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Augsburg Books

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1451414080

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9781451414080

Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers

Exploring Christian Faith

By: Martin E. Marty

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Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers

Exploring Christian Faith

By: Martin E. Marty

* Author is a preeminent Lutheran historian and theologian * Unique question and answer format * Ideal for group study

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Augsburg Books

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0806653507

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9780806653501

Sin Boldly!

Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls

By: Ted Peters,Martin E. Marty

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Sin Boldly!

Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls

By: Ted Peters,Martin E. Marty

Can faith as trusting God make a difference? Absolutely--by relieving our anxiety over self-justification and the need to scapegoat others. When we discover we don't justify ourselves because God has justified us, we become free. What Sin Boldly! points to is the presence of the crucified and living Christ in the human soul, placed there by the Holy Spirit. And this becomes transformative. Sin Boldly! provides an experiential analysis of the contrast between self-justification and justification by God. Those among us with fragile souls are anxious, and we shore up our anxiety with walls of self-justification that victimize those whom we scapegoat. Those among us with broken souls have lost the very moral universe that makes any kind of justification possible, and this usually leads to anomie and suicide. We must pose the question: how can the gospel of grace provide transformation for both fragile and broken souls? After an exposition of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, this book proposes the following answer: trusting in the God of grace relieves anxiety and provides a divine vocation that transcends our moral universe with the promise of forgiveness, renewal, and resurrection.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1451487681

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9781451487688

The Modern Schism

Three Paths to the Secular

By: Martin E. Marty

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The Modern Schism

Three Paths to the Secular

By: Martin E. Marty

The reality of the secular has come to obsess modern religious thinkers, notes Martin E. Marty. This volume analyzes from the first time the complex story of THE MODERN SCHISM, an episode in the cultural and spiritual history of the West which has had fateful consequences for contemporary society. Dr. Marty argues that during the previous century, there occurred a cluster of events more devastating to--and potentially more hopeful for--Christianity than anything that happened during such similar periods as the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. He traces three different types of secularization which together make up the "modern schism," shows how they have developed in the West, and where they are leading man today. By contrasting the ways in which the old Christian order was attacked in Europe, ignored in England, and transformed in America, the author points to present alternatives to that order and what they mean for society.

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1725232138

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Modern American Religion, Volume 1

The Irony of It All, 1893-1919

By: Martin E. Marty

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Modern American Religion, Volume 1

The Irony of It All, 1893-1919

By: Martin E. Marty

In this second volume of two tracing the history of 20th-century American religion, Martin E. Marty tells the story of how America has survived religious disturbances and culturally prospered from them.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226508943

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Modern American Religion, Volume 2

The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941

By: Martin E. Marty

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Modern American Religion, Volume 2

The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941

By: Martin E. Marty

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0226508978

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9780226508979

A Nation of Behavers

By: Martin E. Marty

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A Nation of Behavers

By: Martin E. Marty

National Book Award-winning author and historian Martin E. Marty's A Nation of Behavers is a characteristically perceptive new map of American religion. . . . Marty's years of astute observation of America's religious trends and developments have yielded six informal but clearly defined clusters around which people attempt to find not only basic group identity but also some kind of power. Anyone concerned about belief and its manifestations will be immensely aided by Marty's cogent comments on recent religious happenings."—Commonweal "This is a book for everyone, more than for the scholar of American religion. . . . Its value is in breadth of vision and new interpretation."—Dean R. Hoge, Theology Today "As a means of making sense out of the potpourri of competing groups that compose religious America today, A Nation of Behavers is a first-rate tool."—Edward A. Fiske, New York Times

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0226508927

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9780226508924

A Short History of Christianity

By: Martin E. Marty

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A Short History of Christianity

By: Martin E. Marty

For the non-specialist, Martin Marty traces the church's quest through twenty centuries for unity, sanctity, universality, and authentic witness. He delves into the disparity between the ideals of the church and historical realty in order to provide a brilliant, instructive, and eminently fair statement of the history of Christianity from its founding to the present day.In this second edition, revised and expanded, Marty has added an entirely new section entitled "Postscript and Prescript" in which he discusses the recent past and prospects. Fresh insights and revisions based on the most recent contemporary developments keep this volume abreast of the times, making it an up-to-date survey of the history of Christianity.

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Fortress Press

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1451414129

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9781451414127

The One and the Many

America's Struggle for the Common Good

By: Martin E. Marty

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The One and the Many

America's Struggle for the Common Good

By: Martin E. Marty

E pluribus unum no longer holds. Out of the many have come as many claims and grievances, all at war with the idea of one nation undivided. The damage thus done to our national life, as too few Americans seek a common good, is Martin Marty's concern. His book is an urgent call for repair and a personal testament toward resolution. A world-renowned authority on religion and ethics in America, Marty gives a judicious account (itself a rarity and a relief in our day of uncivil discourse) of how the body politic has been torn between the imperative of one people, one voice, and the separate urgings of distinct identities--racial, ethnic, religious, gendered, ideological, economic. Foreseeing an utter deadlock in public life, with devastating consequences, if this continues, he envisions steps we might take to carry America past the new turbulence. While the grand story of oneness eludes us (and probably always will), Marty reminds us that we do have a rich, ever-growing, and ever more inclusive repertory of myths, symbols, histories, and, most of all, stories on which to draw. He pictures these stories, with their diverse interpretations, as part of a conversation that crosses the boundaries of groups. Where argument polarizes and deafens, conversation is open ended, guided by questions, allowing for inventiveness, fair play, and dignity for all. It serves as a medium in Marty's broader vision, which replaces the restrictive, difficult, and perhaps unattainable ideal of "community" with the looser, more workable idea of "association." An "association of associations" is what Marty contemplates, and for the spirit and will to promote it he looks to eighteenth-century motifs of sentiment and affection, convergences of intellect and emotion that develop from shared experience. And as this book so eloquently reminds us, America, however diverse, is an experience we all share.

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Harvard University Press

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0674638271

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9780674638273

The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism

By: Martin E. Marty

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The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism

By: Martin E. Marty

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America--and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture. Religious historian Martin E. Marty looks at the factors behind both the long period of Protestant ascendancy in America and the comparatively recent diffusion and diminution of its authority. Marty ranges across time, covering such things as the establishment of the Jamestown settlement in 1607, the 1955 publication of Will Herberg's landmark book Protestant-Catholic-Jew, and the current period of American ethnic and religious pluralism. For centuries, American Protestantism dominated in three main ways, says Marty: in the sheer numbers of its committed practitioners (spread across some two hundred denominations), in the Protestant leanings of nonadherents, and in the influence of the Protestant ethic in activities as diverse as business and art. To discover what is particularly “American” about Protestantism in this country, Marty looks at Protestant creencias, or beliefs, that complement or supplement pure doctrine. These include the notion of God as an agent of America’s destiny and the impact of the biblical credos of mission, stewardship, and vocation on innumerable nonreligious matters of daily life. Marty also discusses the vigencias, or binding (though unwritten) customs, of Protestantism. They include the tendencies to interpret matters of faith in market terms and to conflate biblical and enlightenment ideology into “civic faith.” Challenges to Protestant hegemony came and went over the centuries, says Marty, but never in such force and to such effect as in the twentieth century. Among other factors contributing to the rise of pluralism and to schisms between mainstreamers and Fundamentalists, Marty lists changes in immigration laws, U.S. Supreme Court decisions on school prayer, the women's movement, and Vatican II. Today, our Protean spirituality is the topic of everything from sermons to bumper stickers. All in all, this is good, reassures Marty, for to debate our spirituality is to sustain the life of a functioning, thinking, believing republic. Those who pine for some golden age of Protestantism are misled by nostalgia or resentment. The real work to be done by Protestants now is to serve, partner, and cooperate where they once managed, controlled, and directed.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820342831

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9780820342832

Building Cultures of Trust

By: Martin E. Marty

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Building Cultures of Trust

By: Martin E. Marty

In Building Cultures of Trust Martin Marty proposes ways to improve the conditions for trust at what might be called the "grassroots" level. He suggests that it makes a difference if citizens put energy into inventing, developing, and encouraging "cultures of trust" in all areas of life--families, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, and churches. Marty acknowledges that the reality of human nature tends toward trust-breaking, not trust-building--all the more reason, he argues, to develop strategies to bring about improvements incrementally, one small step at a time. --from publisher description

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802865461

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9780802865465

Pilgrims in Their Own Land

500 Years of Religion in America

By: Martin E. Marty

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Pilgrims in Their Own Land

500 Years of Religion in America

By: Martin E. Marty

Pilgrims in Their Own Land is Martin E. Marty's vivid chronological account of the people and events that carved the spiritual landscape of America. It is in one sense a study of migration, with each wave of immigrants bringing a set of religious beliefs to a new world. The narrative unfolds through sharply detailed biographical vignettes—stories of religious "pathfinders," including William Penn, Mary Baker Eddy, Henry David Thoreau, and many other leaders of movements, both marginal and mainstream. In addition, Marty considers the impact of religion on social issues such as racism, feminism, and utopianism. And engrossing, highly readable, and comprehensive history, Pilgrims in Their Own Land is written with respect, appreciation, and insight into the multitude of religious groups that represent expressions of spirituality in America.

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Penguin

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0140082689

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9780140082685

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison

A Biography

By: Martin E. Marty

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison

A Biography

By: Martin E. Marty

For facination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. Ever since it was published in 1951, Letters and Papers from Prison has had a tremendous impact on Christian and secular thought, and has helped establish Bonhoeffer's reputation as one of the most important Protestant thinkers of the twentieth century. In this, the first history of the book's remarkable global career ... writer Martin Marty tells how and why Letters and Papers from Prison has been read and used in such dramatically different ways, from the Cold War to today."--

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Princeton University Press

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0691202486

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9780691202488

Visions of Utopia

By: Edward Rothstein,Herbert Muschamp,Martin E. Marty

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Visions of Utopia

By: Edward Rothstein,Herbert Muschamp,Martin E. Marty

From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing. Edward Rothstein, New York Times cultural critic, contends that every utopia is really a dystopia--a disaster in the making--one that overlooks the nature of humanity and the impossibilities of paradise. He traces the ideal in politics and technology and suggests that only in art--and especially in music--does the desire for utopia find satisfaction. Martin Marty examines several models of utopia--from Thomas More's to a 1960s experimental city that he helped to plan--to show that, even though utopias can never be realized, we should not be too quick to condemn them. They can express dimensions of the human spirit that might otherwise be stifled and can plant ideas that may germinate in more realistic and practical soil. And Herbert Muschamp, the New York Times architectural critic, looks at Utopianism as exemplified in two different ways: the Buddhist tradition and the work of visionary Viennese architect Adolph Loos. Utopian thinking embodies humanity's noblest impulses, yet it can lead to horrors such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Regime. In Visions of Utopia, these leading thinkers offer an intriguing look at the paradoxes of paradise.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195171616

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9780195171617

The Mystery of the Child

By: Martin E. Marty

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The Mystery of the Child

By: Martin E. Marty

Much of today's writing on children treats the child of any age as a problem or a set of problems to be solved, effectively reducing the child to a complex of biological and chemical factors, explainable in scientific terms, or regarding children as objects of adult control. In contrast, Martin Marty here presents the child as a mystery who invokes wonder and elicits creative responses that affect the care provided him or her. Drawing on literature as new as contemporary poetry and as old as the Bible, The Mystery of the Child encourages the thoughtful enjoyment of children instead of the imposition of adult will and control. Indeed, Marty treats the impulse to control as a problem and highlights qualities associated with children -- responsiveness, receptivity, openness to wonder -- that can become sources of renewal for adults. The Mystery of the Child represents a new tack for Martin Marty -- universally respected as a historian, theologian, and interpreter of religion and culture -- but displays the same incisive, erudite quality marking the fifty-plus books and thousands of articles that he has previously written. Marty's broad, thoughtful perspective will inspire readers to think afresh about what it means to be a child -- and to be a caregiver. This book is sure to claim a wide readership -- parents, grandparents, schoolteachers, theologians, historians -- engaging anyone wanting to explore more fully the profound realm of the child.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802817661

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9780802817662

The Promise of Winter

Quickening the Spirit on Ordinary Days and in Fallow Seasons

By: Martin E. Marty,Micah Marty

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The Promise of Winter

Quickening the Spirit on Ordinary Days and in Fallow Seasons

By: Martin E. Marty,Micah Marty

Rather than looking ahead to spring, The Promise of Winter explores the signs of promise and presence found in the winter of the soul. For the disappointed and dispirited, this volume holds up the presence and promise of God.

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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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0802844367

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9780802844361

Christianity in the New World

From 1500 to 1800

By: Martin E. Marty

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Christianity in the New World

From 1500 to 1800

By: Martin E. Marty

Discusses the spread of Christianity to the New World, describes religious life in America through the Revolutionary War, and explains how religious freedom led to the great variety of churches in the United States.

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Harper San Francisco

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0866831738

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9780866831734

Our Hope for Years to Come

The Search for Spiritual Sanctuary

By: Martin E. Marty,Micah Marty

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Our Hope for Years to Come

The Search for Spiritual Sanctuary

By: Martin E. Marty,Micah Marty

Reflections for each day in Lent, with photographs of the arches and vaults; windows and doorways; cloisters, stairs, and aisles; niches and carvings of great Gothic cathedrals and also images of humble wooden churches, each paired with a hymn stanza.

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Augsburg Books

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0806628367

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9780806628363

The Lord's Supper

By: Martin E. Marty

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The Lord's Supper

By: Martin E. Marty

Martin E. Marty's book on Holy Communion describes the origins of this rite and the important role it has played throughout the history of the Christian church.--From publisher's description.

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