Martin A. Lang

Martin A. Lang was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York in an old Greenpoint family whose grandfather, a sea captain, came from Wales after the Civil War. He received his BA in chemistry and taught that subject until the attraction for the humanities finally crowded out his love for science. He then received his MA and PhD from the Catholic University of America in Religious Studies, followed by fellowships at Yale Divinity and Columbia-Union in NY. His fascination for writing and teaching about religion,at Fairfield University in Connecticut,comes from the broad range of life-meanings that religion offers all peoples, the centrality of justice,the need to hope and the importance of love. "Add in," he says, "I enjoy all the contributing fields that relate to Religion, art, history, philosophy, archeology, music, you name it."

His most recent book, Christian Spirituality,offers a new method for studying St. Matthew's Gospel placing greater emphasis on the Hebrew Scriptures linking Christianity with ancient Judaism.