Saturday, May 27, 2023

Wisdom! Talk set for August in Milwaukee

Marcus Plested (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1999) is Professor of Greek Patristic and Byzantine Theology at Marquette University. Schooled in London, he studied modern history followed by theology at Merton College, Oxford, completing his doctorate under the supervision of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.

He taught for many years at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies and the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge (UK). He has been a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and has taught, lectured, and published widely in patristic, Byzantine, and modern Orthodox theology.

He is the author or editor of four books to date:

  • The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition (Oxford: OUP 2004)
  • Orthodox Readings of Aquinas (Oxford: OUP 2012)
  • The Oxford Handbook to the Reception of Aquinas (Oxford: OUP 2021) (with Matthew Levering)
  • Wisdom in Christian Tradition: The Patristic Roots of Modern Russian Sophiology (Oxford: OUP 2022).



 

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