SPEAKER SERIES: Orthodox Scholars Preach

Forgiveness Sunday, March 6

 

This week's Speaker Series features Professor Marcus Plested, who preaches about the Sunday of Saint Gregory Palamas. Watch this 10-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ryU0gcaGWw 

 

BIOGRAPHY

Marcus Plested (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1999) is Professor of Greek Patristic and Byzantine Theology and Henri de Lubac Chair at Marquette University. Previously, he taught at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge (2000-11). 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); and Wisdom in Christian Tradition: The Patristic Roots of Modern Russian Sophiology (Oxford: OUP 2022).

 

ABOUT SPEAKER SERIES

Every week until Pascha, a different Orthodox Scholar will release a new 10-minute video. This Speaker Series: Orthodox Scholars Preach is a collaboration between the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University and the Department of Religious Education.

 

 

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