Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious History and Historical Theology
Profile
Education
B.A. in English Literature, Concordia University, Portland, 1990
B.A. in Education, Concordia University, Portland, 1990
MTS, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, 1994
Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, 2004
Personal
Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen teaches courses in the history of early and medieval Christianity, and specific topics in historical theology and Eastern Orthodox Christianity. She also teaches in the First Year Experience and International Honors programs. Her research is focused primarily on the social ethics found in the writing of fourth-century Cappadocian authors and in monastic and spiritual texts of Orthodox Christianity during the age of the Byzantine Empire. She is the author of “They Who Give From Evil”: the Response of the Eastern Church to Money-lending in the Early Christian Era (Wipf and Stock, 2012).