Martin Marty has taught in the Divinity School, the Department of History, and the Committee on the History of Culture since 1963. He specializes in late eighteenth- and twentieth-century American religion and occasionally holds seminars on subjects related to this specialty. His scholarly research is centered in a multi-volume work entitled Modern American Religion, three volumes of which have appeared: The Irony of It All; The Noise of Conflict; and Under God, Indivisible. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Professor Marty has put considerable effort into the Master of Divinity program at the Divinity School and into teaching for public ministry. The title of this lecture is, "The Mystery of the Child."