Jerry L. Martin

Jerry L. Martin was raised in a Christian home. By the time he left college, he was not a believer. But he was interested in the big questions and so he studied the great thinkers. He became a philosophy professor and served as head of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to scholarly articles on epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and public policy, he wrote reports on education that received national attention and was invited to testify before Congress. Martin’s life took a different turn when he had a remarkable religious experience, which is reported in God: An Autobiography. In 2014, he started the Theology Without Walls project, in cooperation with the American Academy of Religion. Those annual discussions led to the landmark publication, Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative, in which twenty-one theologians from diverse backgrounds and orientations explore the search for spiritual truth beyond the boundaries of creed and scriptural canon. Martin lives in Pennsylvania and is married to Abigail L. Rosenthal, professor emerita at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, the author of Confessions of a Young Philosopher (forthcoming), A Good Look At Evil, and the blog "Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column". www.theologywithoutwalls.com www.godanautobiography.com