Marcus Plested
Marcus Plested, centre, together with Christos Yannaras, right, and Demetrios Mavropoulos, Athens 2021.
Marcus Plested was born in London in 1970. He read modern history followed by theology at Merton College, Oxford, receiving his doctorate in 1999. He taught for many years at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies and the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge before moving to the USA in 2013. He has been a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and has taught, lectured, and published widely in patristic, Byzantine, and modern Orthodox theology. 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)