A thoughtful and important study. Chung-Kim's treatment of the Calvin-Westphal debate, the focal point of the book, is especially to be commended.
~Irena Backus, Professor of Reformation History and Ecclesiastical Latin, University of Geneva
This is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the use of the fathers in Reformation times. It gives a useful new perspective on the much-studied eucharistic debates.
~Anthony N. S. Lane, Professor of Historical Doctrine, London School of Theology
This study shows impressive insight in the reformed arguments in opposition to the Lutheran movement while revealing a large number of sources and putting them into historical context. It will certainly have a major impact on ongoing debates about confessional identity and the use of tradition within the Protestant movement.
~Markus Wriedt, Professor, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
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
[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
