Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users.

In the face of the growing threat from collisions of faith world-wide, this manifesto is a call to embrace religious pluralism.

• Martin E. Marty is a renowned commentator on religious matters, the author of over 50 books, winner of the National Book Award, and the recipient of 74 honorary doctorates
  
• Demonstrates that citizens, religions and identities can survive in radically pluralist settings
  
• Accessibly written, it tackles people's fears of religious pluralism
  
• Argues that those involved in collisions of faith need to risk...

Marty brings to powerful life the devout Reformation figure whose despair for a perilous world, felt anew in modern times, drove him to a ceaseless search for assurance of God's love.

In his 1500-year-old Confessions, Augustine of Hippo tells the story of his remarkable life, interwoven with his insights of endless wisdom. Noted Paul VI: ?all of antiquity's philosophy converges in his work.?

In 2007 then-presidential-candidate Barack Obama called Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) his -favorite philosopher.- Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited offers fresh and creative ways of looking at this influential American theologian's views on religion, politics, and culture through the eyes of diverse respected scholars.

With essays by Peter Berger, George Forell, Reginald Fuller, Walter Harrelson, Franklin Littell, Jaroslav Pelikan, Franklin Sherman, all under the editorship of Martin Marty.Less than two decades since Bonhoeffer's execution in 1945, a symposium of scholars was held to rescue the real Bonhoeffer from the so-called "Bonhoeffer mystique" that was popular in the 1960's. Martin Marty, who planned and edited this symposium, writes in his Introduction: "Here, for the first time in the U.S., a number of Christian thinkers gather to analyze Bonhoeffer's theological achievement. . . . The eight...

Description: 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."" Endorsements:...