Faith and politics
Broadcast: Midmorning, 05/01/2008, 9:06 a.m.
St. Paul, Minn. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke strongly against his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. Eminent theologian and author Martin Marty talks about religion and presidential candidates.
Marty has also just revised a history of Christianity that he first wrote 50 years ago, a process that he says taught him the lessons he should have learned long ago.
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Martin Marty: Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His most recent book is "The Christian World: A Global History."
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