Paul Martens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ethics Director of Interdisciplinary Programs, College of Arts and Sciences
Education
- Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2005
- Th.M. Regent College (Vancouver), 2000
- M.C.S. Regent College (Vancouver), 1997
- B.A. Providence College (Manitoba), 1994
Biography
Dr. Martens, born and raised on the Canadian prairies, has been teaching at Baylor since 2006. He graduated with a PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 and spent the subsequent year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Notre Dame. Specializing in Moral Theology and Christian Ethics, his research focuses on global ethics, human rights/dignity, interreligious engagement, natural law, Søren Kierkegaard, and Anabaptist theology and ethics. Outside of the office, he enjoys spending time with family and cycling the many gravel roads of Texas.
Select Publications
Paul Martens. “John Peters Humphrey and the Role of Human Dignity in the UDHR,” Review of Faith and International Affairs 21.4 (2023): 15-21.
Paul Martens and Wemimo Jaiyesimi. “The Recovery of Human Dignity in Protestant Christianity and its Ethical Implications,” Religions 14.3 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14030425.
Michael Mawson and Paul Martens, Eds. The Ethics of Grace: Engaging Gerald McKenny, London: T&T Clark, 2022.
Paul Martens. “Friendship and the Future of Interreligious Cooperation.” International Journal of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies 5.2 (2022): 27-33.
Laura Schmidt Roberts, Paul Martens, and Myron A. Penner, Eds. Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision: New Essays in Anabaptist Identity and Theological Method, London: T&T Clark, 2020.
Laura Lysen and Paul Martens. “How Can We Love Our Enemies When We Kill Our Friends? Reframing the Neo-Anabaptist/Neo-Augustinian Divide.” Modern Theology 36.3 (2020): 462-77.
Paul Martens. “Back to the Basics: The Resurgence of Moral Formation in American Protestant Ethics.” Studies in Christian Ethics 33.1 (2019): 85-94.
Paul Martens. Reading Kierkegaard I: A Guide to Fear and Trembling. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017.
Paul Martens. “Virtue and Character.” In The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought (214-226). Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber, Eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Paul Martens and C. Stephen Evans, Eds. Kierkegaard and Christian Faith, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2016.
Courses Taught at Baylor
- REL 1350 Christian Heritage
- REL 3390 Christian Ethics
- REL 3394 War and Peace in the Christian Tradition
- REL 4393 Environmental Ethics
- REL 5393 Contemporary Problems in Christian Ethics