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Sustainability in Monastic Communities Originally published in 2021 Dr. Samuel Torvend spent his sabbatical during the 2019-20 school year researching environmental consciousness and sustainability in early medieval monastic communities. Early medieval monasteries were built to last, he emphasizes. “When these monastic communities were established, they did not think they… May 22, 2022

Dr. Torvend on Sustainability in Monastic Communities Dr. Samuel Torvend spent his sabbatical during the 2019-20 school year researching environmental consciousness and sustainability in early medieval monastic communities. Early medieval monasteries were built to last, he emphasizes. “When these monastic communities were established, they did not think they were going to be… May 11, 2021

Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen Associate Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History Full Profile 253-535-7237 bll@plu.edu

Course Descriptions RELI 131 : The Religions of South Asia - RL, VW, GE Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism - their origins and development, expansion, and contemporary issues. (4) RELI 211 : Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible - RL, IT This course introduces students to the critical study of the books in the Hebrew Bible Canon. Students will become familiar with the socio-historical context of these biblical books and their major theological themes; explore in depth a

semester, PLU faculty will explore the pandemic phenomenon through the lens of diverse disciplinary fields. These include: Biology, Global Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Literature and the Arts. The course also includes a panel of PLU alumni in the health and care professions that have been invited to reflect on their experience of the crisis from the vantage point as practitioners. The

Medieval Christian History at Pacific Lutheran University (USA). Her scholarship explores healthcare, dying, death, dead bodies and burials in early monastic and Byzantine literature, and the roles of pain and suffering as a form of religious identity construction in martyr accounts. Additionally, she has published articles on teaching religion and healthcare, Universal Design and ability/disability identity in the classroom. She is the author of John Moschos’ Spiritual Meadow: Authority and Autonomy

an emphasis on medieval and early modern literature and culture, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Her research has focused on writings by medieval women mystics. In particular, she explores the often fraught relationships between women mystics and their male contemporaries to understand the ways gender relations impacted women’s theologies and religious communities. Conference ScheduleProfessor Christensen’s teaching interests include not only medieval and early modern literature