<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/westmont-news/rhee-probe-giving-early-christianity.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>10/18/2011</pubDate><title>Rhee to Probe Giving in Early Christianity</title><excerpt>Helen Rhee, associate professor of religious studies at Westmont, lectures about “Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich: Almsgiving and Salvation in Early Christianity” on Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in Westmont’s Hieronymus Lounge in Kerrwood Hall. The Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture is free and open to the public. Rhee, who grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and then Southern California, graduated from UC Berkeley and earned a master of divinity degree and doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary. She has taught at Westmont since 2004, receiving the award Teacher of the Year in Humanities in 2010. Her research specializes in early Christian history, and her most recent book, “Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries,” explores the diverging Christian self-identities in relation to Greco-Roman culture and society.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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