May 16, 2008

A 'Demagogue' in the Pulpit

To the Editor:

Martin E. Marty's "Prophet and Pastor" (The Chronicle Review, April 11) glosses over the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s racially charged, unpatriotic, and anti-Semitic remarks. Marty's whole article is in praise of this demagogue in priestly garments. The renowned theologian willfully neglects to mention or explain "black liberation theology."

Professor Marty fails to report and criticize the invectives reprinted in Wright's church bulletin, such as Hamas's

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