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The Infidel - Marty, Martin E.
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2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Marty's work is a history of the role of the tradition of American unbelief [deism, skepticism, agnosticism and atheism] in the self-definition of American religion. The major infidels [Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, Robert Owen, Robert Ingersoll and Clarence Darrow] succeeded like other less militant ones, not only in mobilizing the opposition to the churches, but also in defining the churches' own sense of mission and purpose. This is the history of these infidels in the American history.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Marty's work is a history of the role of the tradition of American unbelief [deism, skepticism, agnosticism and atheism] in the self-definition of American religion. The major infidels [Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, Robert Owen, Robert Ingersoll and Clarence Darrow] succeeded like other less militant ones, not only in mobilizing the opposition to the churches, but also in defining the churches' own sense of mission and purpose. This is the history of these infidels in the American history.
Autorenporträt
Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where for 35 years he taught religious history in three faculties. Since 1956 he has been on the masthead of The Christian Century and is editor of Context. He specializes in American religious history and headed the six-year ""Fundamentalism Project"" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the National Medal of Humanities and the medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with the National Book Award for Righteous Empire in 1971. An ordained Lutheran minister, he frequently also writes on theological themes.