Michael Plekon
Michael Plekon's areas of specialization include the social history of American religious traditions and communities, social theory and its connections with theology, the social and theological thought of Søren Kierkegaard, contemporary Eastern Orthodox theology and theologians of the Russian emigration and saints, canonized or not, in our time. Most recently, he has been writing about writers and activists and their search for God, identity and meaning.
He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, honorary Fulbright, American Scandinavian Institute and Lutheran World Federation Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Institute for Systematic Theology in 1979-80 and 1981, working on Kierkegaard's social and theological criticism.
From September 1, 1977 till August 31, 2017 he was a faculty member at Baruch College of the City University of New York in the department of Sociology and Anthropology. He also was for many years coordinator of and professor in the program in Religion and Culture. He is Emeritus Professor.
Having published many articles on Kierkegaard and other modern theologians, he has also edited, translated and published several volumes of the writings of theologians Paul Evdokimov, Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Arthur Carl Piepkorn, and Nicolas Afanasiev, among others. He published a study of ten remarkable 20th century persons of faith in the Eastern Church, also one on the ordinary, diverse, often hidden shapes of holiness in our time. To these he added a volume on saints as they really are and another on prayer in everyday life, as well as one on an ecumenical array of writers giving us a worldly spirituality.
He continues to edit and translate and produce studies. One published recently was a collection of reflections from an ecumenical collection of clergy and laity on faith, parish, and ministry in our time--"The church has left the building." Another, was published-- Community as church, church as Community--on the decline and shrinkage of congregation but also their resurrection, through reimagining their mission, their place in the larger community and offering their space for community services during the week. A book on the ordained--Ministry Matters, is about pastors, their lives and work today, through the eyes of over a dozen ecumenically diverse pastor-theologians He is also a reviewer for several journals. He has served as a presbyter/priest in both the West and the East and is retired.
He received his A.B. from The Catholic University of America and his M.A. and Ph.D from Rutgers University where he was a student of Peter L. Berger. He is married to Jeanne Berggreen Plekon, a landscape artist. They have two adult children and several grandchildren.
Supervisors: Peter L. Berger
Phone: 845.380.6343
Address: 150 South Rd, Holmes NY 12531
He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, honorary Fulbright, American Scandinavian Institute and Lutheran World Federation Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Institute for Systematic Theology in 1979-80 and 1981, working on Kierkegaard's social and theological criticism.
From September 1, 1977 till August 31, 2017 he was a faculty member at Baruch College of the City University of New York in the department of Sociology and Anthropology. He also was for many years coordinator of and professor in the program in Religion and Culture. He is Emeritus Professor.
Having published many articles on Kierkegaard and other modern theologians, he has also edited, translated and published several volumes of the writings of theologians Paul Evdokimov, Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Arthur Carl Piepkorn, and Nicolas Afanasiev, among others. He published a study of ten remarkable 20th century persons of faith in the Eastern Church, also one on the ordinary, diverse, often hidden shapes of holiness in our time. To these he added a volume on saints as they really are and another on prayer in everyday life, as well as one on an ecumenical array of writers giving us a worldly spirituality.
He continues to edit and translate and produce studies. One published recently was a collection of reflections from an ecumenical collection of clergy and laity on faith, parish, and ministry in our time--"The church has left the building." Another, was published-- Community as church, church as Community--on the decline and shrinkage of congregation but also their resurrection, through reimagining their mission, their place in the larger community and offering their space for community services during the week. A book on the ordained--Ministry Matters, is about pastors, their lives and work today, through the eyes of over a dozen ecumenically diverse pastor-theologians He is also a reviewer for several journals. He has served as a presbyter/priest in both the West and the East and is retired.
He received his A.B. from The Catholic University of America and his M.A. and Ph.D from Rutgers University where he was a student of Peter L. Berger. He is married to Jeanne Berggreen Plekon, a landscape artist. They have two adult children and several grandchildren.
Supervisors: Peter L. Berger
Phone: 845.380.6343
Address: 150 South Rd, Holmes NY 12531
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