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[The book] has tremendous implications for ecumenical relations between ourselves and the Eastern Orthodox...Well written and even-handed. --The Catholic Response The story the author tells is fascinating and holds many surprises for theologians of both Eastern and Western traditions. --First Things His book is both a revealing historical study of Orthodox attitudes to Aquinas and the West, and a significant contribution to ecumenical dialogue between Orthodox East and Latin West, which, despite Kipling, have met in the past and could do so again to their mutual profit. --Theology An important theological contribution, a clarion call for the Orthodox Church to be herself rather than to be defined as merely the opposite of all things Western. --Theological Studies Brilliant. --New Blackfriars A significant and much needed study. --The Journal of Theological Studies [A] very fine book. --Times Literary Supplement

This book is an extraordinarily rich articulation and defense of Orthodox scholasticism ... Plesteds profoundly erudite study charts an exciting and compelling course Matthew Levering University of Dayton M. Plesteds Orthodox Readings on Aquinas ... deserves to take the succession of Losskys book [Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church] as setting a new paradigm regarding the identity and inner coherence of the Orthodox tradition Antoine Levy in Nicolaus, Revisita di Teologia ecumenico-patristica Marcus Plested has written a very important book ... finely researched and winsomely written survey ... Applying the technique of what he calls multiple perspective to the two figures who serve as the opposing archetypes of the East and West, Plested opens the study with two fascinating chapters, the first on Thomas Aquinas and his reception of the Greek East, the second on Gregory Palamas and his reception of the Latin West Daniel A. Keating, Nove et Vetera His book is both a revealing historical study of Orthodox attitudes to Aquinas and the West, and a significant contribution to ecumenical dialogue between Orthodox East and Latin West, which, despite Kipling, have met in the past and could do so again to their mutual profit. Hugh Wybrew, Theology An important theological contribution, a clarion call for the Orthodox Church to be herself rather than to be defined as merely the opposite of all things Western. Matthew Briel, Theological Studies A significant and much needed study. Thomas G. Weinandy, The Journal of Theological Studies A magnifcent book... The story the author tells is fascinating and holds many surprises for theologians of both Eastern and Western traditions. Andrew Louth, First Things

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Marcus Plested has taught, lectured, and published widely in the field of Orthodox Christian studies. His first book was The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition (OUP, 2004).

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