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St. Olaf Regent Martin E. Marty lectured at Yale University

By Kristina Boyer '05
February 10, 2005

St. Olaf College senior regent Dr. Martin E. Marty delivered the Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture at Yale University on Monday, Jan. 31. His lecture was titled "The First Amendment -- Religion: Subordinate, Not Subservient."

Marty, elected to the St. Olaf Board of Regents in 1988, presided as board chair from 1994 to 2001 and served as interim president of St. Olaf College in 2000-01. He is the author of more than 50 books, including A Cry of Absence, considered to be a spiritual classic. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago where he taught for 35 years, was recently honored by St. Olaf College when it endowed the Martin E. Marty Chair in Religion and the Academy.

An ordained Lutheran minister, Marty has been awarded the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Order of Lincoln Medallion (Illinois' top honor) and 70 honorary doctorates.

Contact Kristina Boyer at 507-786-3032 or boyer@stolaf.edu.