Marcus Plested
Marcus Plested, centre, together with Christos Yannaras, right, and Demetrios Mavropoulos, Athens 2021.
Marcus Plested is Professor of Greek Patristic and Byzantine Theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). Born (1970) and raised in London, he read modern history followed by theology at Merton College, Oxford. He was received into the Orthodox Church in 1992. He completed his doctorate at Oxford in 1999 with a thesis on the fourth-century Macarian Homilies supervised by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. From 2000 he taught at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies and the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge before moving to the USA in 2013. He has been visiting professor at the department of theology of the University of Athens and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has taught, lectured, and published widely in patristic, Byzantine, and modern Orthodox theology. He is a regular visitor to Greece.
His main publications are:
- 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) (ed. with Matthew Levering)
- Wisdom in Christian Tradition: The Patristic Roots of Modern Russian Sophiology (Oxford: OUP 2022)