Books written by Richard Valantasis

  • The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice
    The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice

    On the narrative in Luke/Acts, see Todd C. Penner and Carolie Vander Stichele, Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and ... Luke (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1988); Luke Timothy Johnson, Luke, Sacra Pagina Series (Collegeville, Minn.

  • The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities
    The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities

    The Beliefnet® Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities is a fascinating look at the diverse strands of the early Christian church.

  • Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice
    Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice

    When [ the ruler and his ] nobles saw me , they fell into agitation and [ wonder ] ... and for me , so ... to them ... When I had drawn near to [ them ] , the ruler and his [ nobles ] dismounted from their [ horses ] .

  • Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice
    Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice

    As this volume shows, the origins of the contemporary Western religious terrain can be gleaned in this period. Rabbinic Judaism flourished and spread. Christianity developed still-important theological categories and structures.

  • The Making of the Self: Ancient and Modern Asceticism
    The Making of the Self: Ancient and Modern Asceticism

    Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith: Essays in Late Ancient Christianity. Studies in Women and Religion 20. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1986. ———. “Devil's Gateway and Bride of Christ: Women in the Early Christian World.” In Ascetic Piety and ...

  • The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities
    The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities

    An accessible overview of the history of the early Christian church provides a close-up look at various movements and sects within early Christianity, discussing the Gnostics, Sethians, Valentinians, Marcionites, Encratites, and Montanists, ...

  • Asceticism
    Asceticism

    (Notre Dame and London, 1970) and John Bossy, "The Counter-Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe," Past and ... 1991); and Michael Mullett, Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London, ...

  • The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice
    The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice

    The book focuses on the communities that produced each gospel, the dynamic energy each gospel displays for creating and sustaining community life, the different interpretations of the person of Jesus, and the different systems of ...

  • The Gospel of Thomas
    The Gospel of Thomas

    This volume offers the first full commentary on the Gospel of Thomas, a work which has previously been accessible only to theologians and scholars.

  • The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles
    The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles

    ... will leave it to the reader to assess whether or not they tend to confirm my thesis. Closely associated with these ... Do Americans Shop Too Much? (Boston: Beacon, 2000), and Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer ...