Luis Josué Salés,

• PhD-Fordham University: History of Christianity (Early/Medieval)
• ThM-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology: Patristics
• MTS-Boston College: Early Christian Studies
• MA-Wheaton College: Systematic and Historical Theology
• BA-Wheaton College: English Writing (Poetry); Political Science (Constitutional Law)

• Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Premodern Christianity
• Women in Early Christianity
• Ancient African Christianities (Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia)
• Christianity in Sasanian Persia
• Eastern Roman Empire
• Early Christian-Muslim Relations
• Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory
• Early Christian Ethics

Cooking, baking, and gardening

• Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
• Intro to Early Christianities
• God on Trial: Free Will and Evil
• Queer African Christianities
• Christianity, Capital, and Communism
• Early Christian-Muslim Relations
• Jesus, Paul, and Early Christian Sexualities
• Eros and Sex: Antiquity and Byzantium
• Precolonial African Christian Spiritualities
• CORE A: Christian Herstory: 4BCE-1,000CE
• CORE III: Not Your Sunday School Christianity

Salés, Luis Josué. “Hypostasis as Theophany in the Theology of Maximos the Confessor,” in Subsidia Maximiana 4, (forthcoming).

———. “Her Body Is Sacred Scripture: An Eastern Orthodox Theology of Women’s Reproductive Self-Determination,” in Reproductive Justice and the Bible. Jennifer Koosed and Katy Valentine, eds. Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts, vol. TBD. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming).

———. “Colonial Ideology and Intellectual Hybridity in the Invention of ‘Neoplatonism,’” in Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1.1 (forthcoming).

———. “Orthodox Abortions, Catholic Contraceptives: Christian Women’s Reproductive Autonomy in the Medieval Roman Empire,” in Reproductive Justice after Roe: Lessons from the Premodern Classroom. Maeve Callan and Emma Maggie Solberg, eds. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, vol. TBD (forthcoming).

———. “Maximos the Confessor’s Correspondence with Egyptian Women: A Translation of Letters 11 and 18 with Introduction and Critical Commentary,” in Subsidia Maximiana 3, 2025 (at press).

———. “Paul and Pseudo-Paul: Authorship, Ideology, and the Difference of Androprimacy,” in Religions 15.9 (2024): 1–15.

———. “Ritualized Affective Drama: Syriac Etiquette Guides and Systems Intelligence in Early Christian-Muslim Encounters,” in Religions 14.11 (2023): 1–17.

———. “On the Commemoration of Saint Pelagios of Jerusalem,” in Parole de l’Orient 49 (2023): 191– 216.

———. “Androprimacy: A New Analytical Concept for the Study of Gender and Religion with Case Studies from the Ethiopic Didəsqəlya and the Greek Apostolic Constitutions,” in Gender and Religion 13 (2022): 195–213.

———. “Systems Intelligence and Byzantine Domestic Violence: The Life of Matrona of Perge as a Case Study,” in Studia Patristica 124 (2021): 29–41.

———. “Timeo hiberos et cruces ferentes: Jesuit Missiology as Iberian Colonialism in Early Modern Abyssinia,” in Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace. Scott Oldenburg and Kristin Bezio, eds. London and New York: Routledge (2021): 151–171.

———. “Queerly Christified Bodies: Women Martyrs, Christification, and the Compulsory Masculinisation Thesis,” in The Journal of Early Christian History 10.3 (2020): 83–109.

———. “To Kill a Matriarchy: Makədda, Queen of Ethiopia and the Specter of Pauline Androprimacy in the Kəbrä Nägäśt,” in African Journal of Gender and Religion 26.1 (2020): 49–76.

———. “The Other Life of Maximos the Confessor: A Reevaluation of the Syriac and Greek Lives and the Case for His Alexandrian Origin,” in The Journal of Late Antiquity 13.2 (2020): 407–439.

———. “Galatians 3:28 and the Ordination of Women in Second-Century Pauline Churches,” in Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice. Elena Narinskaya and Gabrielle Thomas, eds. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books (2020): 58–76.

———. “Can These Bones Live?: Gregory of Nyssa’s Appropriation of Aristotelian Psychology in On the Soul and the Resurrection,” in Sacris Erudiri: A Journal of Late Antique and Medieval Christianity 56 (2017): 33–63.

———. “‘Aristotelian’ as a Lingua Franca: Rationality in Christian Self-Representation under the ‘Abbasids,” in Studia Patristica 92 (2017): 453–464.

——— (with Aristotle Papanikolaou). “‘A Power that Deifies Humanity and Humanizes God’: The Psychodynamics of Love and Hypostatic Deification according to Maximos the Confessor,” in The International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 78.1–2 (2017): 23–38.

———. “Virtue Will Bind the Wounds of Your Soul: Yahyā ibn ‘Adī and The Love of All Humans under the ‘Abbasids,” in Healing, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness in Eastern Orthodox Perspectives. Lev Smith, ed. New York, NY: Theotokos Press (2015): 84–92.

———. “Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Asceticism as Erosion of the Passions and the Gnomic Will,” in Orthodox Monasticism: Past and Present. John A. McGuckin, ed. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press (2014): 324–331.

———. “Divine Incarnation through the Virtues: The Central Soteriological Role of Maximos the Confessor’s Aretology,” Saint Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 58.2 (2014): 159–176.