Inventing Authority

Esther Chung-Kim is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Colloquy of Marburg (1529) 2 John Calvin's Use of the Fathers in the Institutes and New Testament Commentaries 3 John Calvin and Joachim Westphal 4 Calvin and Westphal, Continued 5 Calvin versus Hesshusen 6 Use of the Fathers at the Colloquy of Montbeliard (1586) Conclusion Appendix I Appendix II Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index 189

[Chung-Kim's] solid study makes more precise the ways in which Protestant reformers structured their systems of authority and put contemporary scholarship to use. Her assessment of the use of historical authority in the church invites further investigation of many aspects of the reformers' employment of the fathers. --Robert Kolb "Lutheran Quarterly" In Inventing Authority: The Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist, Esther Chung-Kim builds a strong and convincing argument regarding the way in which the authority of the church fathers was reshaped by Reformation theologians to bolster their own legitimacy and establish a markedly new understanding of theological authority within the Protestant church, particularly in relation to issues where no internal consensus within Protestantism prevailed. --Sylvia Sweeney "Anglican and Episcopal History" This book adopts a very welcome thematic perspective, exploring the appeal to patristic authority in one of the key problems in Reformation theology: the nature of the eucharist. --Arnoud Visser "Journal of Ecclesiastical History" This work reflects a disciplined approach that bears some useful fruit for the historian... Inventing Authority is well-researched and thought-provoking, and will be of interest to the scholar, the student and the informed layperson. --Russell Dawn "The Expository Times"