Elizabeth Goodine
Instructor
E-mail: egoodine@loyno.edu, Phone:
865-3943
Elizabeth Goodine is Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Early Christianity.
Following a varied career in nursing, health education and foreign mission
service, she attended Temple University in Philadelphia where she received
her Ph.D. in Religion in 2004. Her dissertation, "Standing at Lyon:
an examination of the martyrdom of Blandina of Lyon," examines the
rise of a seemingly powerless victim to a person of influence through
the lens of Bowen Systems
Theory. She has a strong belief in the relevance of the early Christian
experience for our own day. In her current research, she is focusing on
systemic processes by which those in positions of authority, both within
the early Christian community and without, sometimes unwittingly handed
over power to the very persons whom they sought to destroy – martyrs
and heretics.