{"id":121593,"date":"2025-03-09T06:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/kenneth-woodward-remembers-martin-marty\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:34:54","slug":"kenneth-woodward-remembers-martin-marty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=121593","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Woodward remembers Martin Marty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Woodward-and-Marty-1140x420.jpg\" class=\"singular-image entry-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Woodward-and-Marty-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176556 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Woodward-and-Marty-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176556 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Woodward-and-Marty-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Woodward-and-Marty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Woodward-and-Marty-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Woodward-and-Marty.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ken Woodward and Martin Marty in 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Woodward was the longtime religion editor at <em>Newsweek<\/em>. Much of his career on the religion beat overlapped with Martin Marty\u2019s career as a scholar and interpreter of American religious life. Here is a taste of Woodward\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/great-interpreter\">piece<\/a> at <em>Commonweal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>In 1986, the religion editor of\u00a0<\/em>Time<em>\u00a0wrote that Marty \u201cis generally acknowledged to be the most influential living interpreter of American religion.\u201d But much of that influence was channeled through other influencers in the press\u2014chiefly, the religion writers at\u00a0Time,\u00a0Newsweek, where I worked, the wire services, and dozens of major daily newspapers. We all read\u00a0<\/em>Context<em>, Marty\u2019s eight-page newsletter, published by the Claretian Fathers, on the impact of religion on American public life; his slyly named weekly column, M.E.M.O., in the\u00a0Christian Century\u00a0(now edited by his son Peter);\u00a0Sightings, which continues as a newsletter published by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago; and\u00a0<\/em>New Theology<em>, an annual paperback anthology of the major theological essays of the previous year edited by Marty and his\u00a0<\/em>Century<em>\u00a0colleague Dean Pearman. We all read Marty and Marty read us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Marty had all the instincts of crack journalist. \u201cTell me three things I should know about you,\u201d was often the way he encouraged conversation with strangers on first meeting. He was also a great noticer. In the late 1960s, for example, he was the first to notice that twenty-somethings were wearing crosses, stars of David, and crescent moons, along with various New Age symbols all on a single chain around the neck. It was an early sign of the spiritually promiscuous years to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Marty was also a gifted synthesizer, seeing patterns that escaped most others. Shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council, Notre Dame University hosted a two-day conference featuring Karl Rahner, Hans K\u00fcng, and other Council periti, together with many of the Council\u2019s Protestant observers. Marty, who had been one of those observers, was asked at the close of the conference to summarize what these theological luminaries had said. Marty chose to listen to them from backstage, where he kibitzed with the journalists who were following the proceedings on in-house television. But while we took notes, Marty wrote a series of lectures he was to give the following week at Southern Methodist University. At the close, he not only summarized the main arguments that emerged from some thirty-six speakers but went on to draw them into a creative dialectic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/great-interpreter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Woodward and Martin Marty in 2016 Woodward was the longtime religion editor at Newsweek. Much of his career on the religion beat overlapped with Martin Marty\u2019s career as a scholar and interpreter of American religious life. 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