Paul Martens, Ph.D.

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

Paul Martens is Director of the Ethics Center at Baylor University, Associate Professor of Ethics in the Department of Religion, and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Strategic Initiatives and Special Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University. Dr. Martens earned his PhD in Ethics from the University of Notre Dame, and his research examines theological, social, and global ethics in their cultural contexts, including literature, politics, and history. Increasingly, he has been working on applied issues in global ethics, especially human dignity, nonviolence, environmental ethics, interreligious cooperation, and artificial intelligence. His research has been published in a variety of books and journals, including International Journal of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies, Religions, Modern Theology, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Studies in Christian Ethics, and The Review of Faith and International Affairs, among others. 

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