(RNS) — Martin E. Marty, an eminent church historian, prolific chronicler and interpreter of religion and its role in public life, died at the age of 97 on Tuesday (Feb. 25) in a Minneapolis ...

Martin E. Marty, a former Lutheran pastor who rose to become one of the country’s preeminent historians and interpreters of ...

According to the 1986 Time profile, Marty’s book output was the subject of a joke at the Divinity School. “An outsider phones, asking to speak with Church Historian Martin E. Marty,” the joke went. “A ...