
Wisdom in Christian Tradition
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2.27.23 |
Symposium Introduction
Panelists
Antoine Arjakovsky
Igor Zaitsev
Paul Blowers
Regula Zwahlen
Brandon Gallaher
Overview
Reviews and Endorsements
“An outstanding book, which will become a standard reference in all future treatments not only of Russian sophiology but also in broader discussions of wisdom in the Christian tradition […] The study of wisdom on this historical scale has never been undertaken before. Plested’s constructive conclusions will be of great interest to systematic theologians. I expect this brilliant work to be widely read and frequently cited for many years.” — Paul Gavrilyuk, Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy, University of St. Thomas
“A beautiful and important scholarly monument that manages to be a systematic study of the multiple Patristic theologies of wisdom, a careful evaluation of Russian sophiology’s claims to be founded on Patristic teaching, and, perhaps most importantly, in its brief constructive final pages a contemporary synthesis of Patristic sophiology that corrects the doctrinal ambiguity of Russian sophiology […] a theological and historical gift.” — Brandon Gallaher, Senior Lecturer of Systematic and Comparative Theology, University of Exeter
“Marcus Plested’s Wisdom in Christian Tradition is not only a historical tour de force in its meticulous tracing of ‘wisdom’ traditions, both East and West, from the Bible onward; but it is itself a highly creative piece of constructive Orthodox theology, opening a way forward between and beyond the modern Russian Sophiologists and their detractors by re-engaging the patristic and medieval sources that underlay their debate. In the process the very concept of ‘tradition’ is richly reconceived.” — Sarah Coakley, Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity emerita, University of Cambridge