Luis Josué Salés,

-New Testament & Early Christianity
-Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
-Postcolonial Theory
-Queer Theory
-Eastern Orthodox Christianity
-Christianity in the Roman Empire, Ethiopia, and Persia

Monographs
Salés, Luis Josué. Maximos the Confessor: Androprimacy and Sexual Difference. Elements in Early Christian Literature 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Book-Length Critical Translations
———. Saint Maximus the Confessor: Four Hundred Chapters on Love. Popular Patristics Series 22b. Crestwood, NY: Saint Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2026. [Greek–English]

———. Gabriel Bunge: Spiritual Fatherhood, Evagrius Ponticus on the Role of the Spiritual Father. Crestwood, NY: Saint Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2016. [German–English]

———. Saint Maximus the Confessor: Two Hundred Chapters on Theology. Popular Patristics Series vol. 53. Crestwood, NY: Saint Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2015. [Greek–English]

Publications with Scripps Students

With Bailey Renee Womble and Luciana Amada Sarabia. Book Review of: Bryce E. Rich, Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy: Beyond Male and Female, in Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies (forthcoming 2027).

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

———.“Her Body Is More than Scripture: Women, Eastern Orthodoxy, and 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).

———. “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 (at press).

———. “Philosophical Essentialism, Intellectual Hybridity, and the Invention of 'Neoplatonism': A Decolonial Critique of the Historiography of Late Ancient Philosophy,’” in Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1.1 (2026): 15–40.

———. “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 ‘Abb-asids,” 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.

Book Reviews

John Chrysavgis, ed. Deaconesses: A Tradition for Today and Tomorrow, in Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 6.2 (2023): 277–279.

Roland Betancourt, Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages, in Journal of Early Christian Studies 31.2 (2023): 253–255.

Carrie Frederick Frost, Church of Our Granddaughters, in International Orthodox Theological Association Forum (https://iota-web.org/2023/04/07/frost-church-of-our-granddaughters/).

Petros N. Toulis, Ο ΛΟΓΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΦΑΝΗ ΝΙΚΑΙΑΣ «ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΝΑΧΡΑΝΤΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑΝ ΔΕΣΠΟΙΝΑΝ ΗΜΩΝ ΘΕΟΤΟΚΟΝ» (The Treatise of Theophanes of Nikaia On Our All-Immaculate and All-Holy Lady Theotokos), in Saint Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 64.3–4 (2020): 240–243.

Mary Johnson Award for:
Research: 2020-2021, 2022-2023
Teaching: 2024-2025