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A minister, historian, and scholar reassesses the life and times of Martin Luther, describing his seminal role in the Reformation, his religious beliefs and fresh interpretation of the human relationship with God, his conflict with Church leaders, and his lasting influence on world history and religion. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chronicles the life of the man who advocated nonviolent resistance, leading India to independance from Britain, with quotes and a timeline. (view table of contents)

Chronicles the life of the Roman Catholic monk whose writings about the spiritual life, Zen Buddhism, and meditation helped to introduce Asian religions to the West. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A series that examines the lives of people who have had a major impact on the history or current practice of religion. This volume follows the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, famed for her tent revivals in America.

Product Description: Speaking of Trust: Conversing with Luther about the Sermon on the Mount brings together passages from Luther's preaching on the Sermon on the Mount and Marty's comments about the place of trust in the life of faith. Marty has arranged Luther's words under three main topics: trust, prayer, and the Beatitudes...read more

Product Description: David Monge believes that many modern Christians no longer think carefully about scripture and tradition, because they don't believe it is essential to their faith -- and, he says, that's strikingly similar to the prevailing situation which confronted Martin Luther 500 years ago...read more

An introduction to festivals that are central to the major religions of the world identifies where each faith's calendar year begins, documents the history and significance of each celebration, and describes observance traditions.

Product Description: This challenging collection of essays offers a refreshing approach to the troubling--and timely--subject of religion and public policy in America, and the ways in which issues of church and state affect our national identity. The result of a series of conferences on religion and politics conducted by the Public Religion project at the University of Chicago, funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust, this collection brings together an extraordinarily diverse set of contributors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Draws on the author's own experiences as an Episcopal priest, Hollywood producer, and civil rights activist to provide lessons for readers of middle age, addressing such themes as remembering, maturing, simplifying, and understanding.

Product Description: In a time when half of all marriages fail, sound advice for marital success is needed more than ever. Let's Talk Marriage is an exceptional premarital guidebook for couples wanting marriages that will last a lifetime. Speaking to readers as a friendly, experienced guide who has prepared more than a thousand couples for marriage, Pastor F...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: “Adventists made major contributions in the American legal tradition by helping expand the liberties of all Americans. Morgan’s careful tracing of that plot will illustrate for non-Adventists the creative role of marginal and outsider groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the role of the variety of religious beliefs and practices in the American culture

Offers a series of questions and answers to encourage readers to think about the place of religion in public, private, and denominational education from kindergarten to the postgraduate level. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this third volume of his acclaimed chronicle of faith in twentieth-century America, Martin E. Marty presents the first authoritative account of American religious culture from the entry of the United States into World War II through the Eisenhower years...read more

A collection of writings covering such topics as Thurman's trip to India in 1936 and the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Whitney Young

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.

An objective and authoritative reference, written by a prominent group of religious scholars, explains, compares, and contrasts the many religions of the world, as well as their festivals, rituals, beliefs, ceremonial objects, history, and more, from a multicultural perspective. (view table of contents)

Product Description: By expressing the thoughts of Christians as they prepare for church, listen to the pastor's sermon, and as they receive the sacrament, the author captures the powerful meaning of the Lord's Supper. Through his personal and inviting voice, church historian and Christian writer Martin E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Not since the Civil War had America been so divided by conflict. Religion was the prime agent in this unusual war: Left versus Right, Fundamentalists versus Modernists; Christians versus Jews; Protestant versus Catholic; white versus black...read more